What is Maturity in Your 20s?

Saleem Yusuf

Being in primary school thinking the high schoolers knew everything. Then reaching high school and looking at university students believing that they have it all figured out. Finally landing yourself in the degree you’ve worked so hard for and officially becoming a university student. Realizing you are still yet to have it all together, possibly when you finally graduate.

The idea that “as you get older, you become wiser” is just that, an idea. The reality is nobody truly has it ALL put together. But simply because of this, it doesn’t mean you are any less mature or don’t have your life in order.

I’ve raised this question to a range of people from all different backgrounds and upbringings and a common theme continuously kept arising with regard to the concept of maturity. All unanimously concluded that understanding and ensuring you have taken care of all your responsibilities is what maturity encompasses, but there’s a little more to it than just that. What is key and often lost in translation is understanding your responsibilities and what is truly important.

Maturity isn’t about being 35 and being financially stable with a huge home and family. Maturity is in possessing the understanding and truly having the correct priorities in order. Knowing what is actually important will help you navigate this world with true confidence in your actions despite what the people around you may say. Just because something may be the social norm doesn’t make it correct, and vice versa. Because of this, maturity knows no age. One can be 50 and still think and behave like a high school student. On the other hand, somebody can be a teenager and speak more truth than their adult counterpart but may be ignored solely because they were born a few decades later. But that’s a different article for another season.

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Saleem Yusuf, Contributor

Saleem Yusuf is a Melbourne based Chiropractic student who loves travelling, seeing and learning about new cultures and not to mention enjoying great food! Asides from that, picking people brains is one of his favourite ways to use his time. He is opinionated and always open to expanding his knowledge and often enjoys having educated conversations.