People my age arn't mature enough.

[tklivory]

Maturity is relative.

Your perception of others as mature/immature, at any age, relate directly to several factors: what you define maturity to be, what you personally value, and what your personality inclines you toward.

When I was young, I perceived those around me as being less mature than myself (although I never fooled myself into thinking I was mature) Later, I came to realize that what it really boiled down to was that we shared different values/personality traits/hobbies etc.

/my .02 dollar. That is all.

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

Spoiler

Look at all the tools in this thread that think you need to cherish your childhood because you'll never have fun in life again.

You make valid points but I cant help feeling included in the above comment there is nothing wrong with sometimes having a bit of "immature" fun, its all contextual. I enjoy my day to day life but sometimes its fun just to pull a daft practical joke or something.

At one point this year myself and a couple of flatmates managed to gain entry to another flatmate's room. We stole her piano, and hid it in the kitchen. The sheer bewilderment when she came home was one of the funnyest things ive ever seen and after she found it we carefully returned it to her room. Mature? No. Funny? Yes. Something we will all laugh and reminice about years later? Totally.

No one was hurt, and everyone had a laugh. There's nothing wrong with a good bit of fun. Once again, maturity has a lot more to do with having a good sense of responsibility, knowing right from wrong, and all that other stuff than just being super serious all the time.

Actually I was hurt, running a piano into your foot is not fun. Also are you saying it was not wrong of us to break into someones room and move their stuff?

Im not disagreeing just wondering where you draw the line, in my mind that was immature but also harmless and funny.

 

[ben---neb]

When I was 13 I could spell "aren't" correctly.

how ever clearly your still immature

However, clearly you're still immature.

I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist adding a comma. Now the sentence pleases me!
Grammar Nazi away!! *woosh!*

OT: I don't think you should worry. Some of the kids are bound to mature after a while. Then you can discuss the economy, politics and the situation in Iraq
The reason they're acting like kids is becasue they ARE kids!! You need to remember to have fun while you still can!
To quote JD from Scrubs: "It's the kid inside us that keeps us all from going insane"
But on the other hand, I know really immature behaviour can be annoying. Pro Tip: girls tend to mature more quickly than boys, and they like mature people... I don't need to draw you a picture do I? : )

I searched your comment for a grammatical inaccuracy and could not find one...

DAMN!

You do tend to overuse the exclaimation mark though. Remember, the less you use it the greater the indivdual effect will be.

Annoyingly pernickety Nazi away! *stamp, stamp, stamp*

 

[Thrashgrinder]

I'm sorry but i think nobody who is 13 should be mature.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Oh hardly, you can think you're mature as you want at 13 but you're not, you just aren't. You haven't got the experience, felt loved by a woman (even if only physically), felt the pain and suffering that you need to feel to be mature

Trust me, I felt exactly like that when I was 13 and I now think how stupid, ignorant and small minded I was. However, everyone at your age does so I wouldn't worry. Just try and look at what you do from someone else's perspective and then you can see if you're even slightly mature.

Also why do 13 year olds want to be mature? Enjoy your childhood, enjoy the perks you get and things you can see without people giving you funny looks

Take in mind this is all my own experience and your situation may have some different points and slightly different reasons but the principle is the same

 

[TheFacelessOne]

I feel the same way, often.

But then I realize...

We're still fudgin' kids.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I think OP is a little pretentious, he may be "mature" at times but he won't "be" mature.

No one really is, we all have immature moments, I'm 22 and can be mature when I need to be like at work etc but I know I can immature as well.

 

[tklivory]

Annoyingly pernickety Nazi away! *stamp, stamp, stamp*

Umm, shouldn't that be persnickety?

/ducks and runs
//sorry, couldn't resist

 

[Klarinette]

I'm almost 24, and I know a lot of people who never bothered growing up. Perpetual state of childhood. Not sure why.

Because it's fun!

*Bounces on trampoline*

I want a lollipop.

I hope you brought an extra lollipop :O

 

[Contun]

When I was young(er), I remeber one of my elders saying they gained so much more knowledge as they grew up... Since then, I've always felt that I still need much more to learn... I still view myself as very childish...

Currently at age fourteen, my only concern is playing video games and making good grades... How's that for maturity?

 

[EeveeElectro]

The 13 year olds I know are lying about having sex with lots of people, girls are dressing like dirty slags and drinking on street corners.

Wanna swap ages? Worrying about money and bills and finding a job and trying to juggle seeing your boyfriend.

 

[Cakes]

You're right, everyone else is the problem, not you.

[small]*sigh*[/small]

 

[master m99]

well...im 17 and me and my m8 are still kind immature (we make childish jokes for the hell of it and generally just act like oversized man children or well...near man children) but when push comes to shove we can usualy ,at the last consivable moment, get our act together , so ya just w8 it out people just grow up at different rates as you can guess mine is very slowly

 

[SnipErlite]

When I was 13 I thought I was a cool guy.

I was a little sad kid with no life.

Heh.

I spend most of my social interaction time hanging out with my older brothers friends

OP you're maturing earlier than your friends, that isn't such a bad thing (especially these days) - I used to hang out with people 2 or 3 years older than me, it's no major thing.

 

[Cakes]

The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe you should join NAMBLA.

Isn't that from an episode of South Park? What a great show.

 

[ToastyTheCommie]

Really the only time that "immaturity" or whatever you want to call it, is when people use it as an excuse to be total fuck ups, i.e. spending more times sprinting through the hallways screaming at school than putting pencils to paper. A girl in my history class knew not who Fidel Castro was, nor the Cuban Missle Crisis, hell she had never even heard of the Cold War! As I stared at her in disgust she simply said it was because it wasn't something she needed to survive. Ugh...people

 

[SavingPrincess]

At 13 I thought I was a man ready to take on the world and all the little kids around me were stuck in childhood.

At 32 I look back on myself and think "what a dumbass kid."

I'm 28, and at the same time, I look at the people around me my age and feel like they're still dumbass kids.

 

[ajemas]

I have mild OCD and ADD (or ADHD, not sure) so I try my hardest to be mature. I can sit still for several hours as long as I'm stimulated, but if the class is doing something stupid/boring then I'll goof of and start playing with a ruler or something.

Yeah, those rulers are the worst. Also, whatever you do, don't bring magnets with you to class. Sticking them under the table to mess with the metal stuff on your desk is a horrible diversion.

 

[ajemas]

The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe you should join NAMBLA.

Isn't that from an episode of South Park? What a great show.

NAMBLA is actually a real organization. (North American Man Boy Lovers Association, for those who don't know.)
As horrible as it is, they are still allowed to exist because of our pesky "free speech" laws.

 

[Sebenko]

Cry me a river.

Is it odd that when I saw that my first thought was of TF2's heavy shouting "CRY SOME MORE!"?

OP: Other people suck. get rid of them. That philosophy has won me so many friends over the years. [/unrepentant bullshit]