People my age arn't mature enough.

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Anyone else get this problem? I'm 13 and almost everyone my age isn't mature enough to really do ANYTHING with, I spend most of my social interaction time hanging out with my older brothers friends and people online (Ventrilo), anyone else have to happen to them?

They aren't the odd ones. We are. I'm 14, and am quite old-headed and old-fashioned. Most of my views are either too complex or too sensible for them to understand, so instead they act like dicks. People grow up, eventually. Its just, we, the last bastions of teenage sanity, have to hang on to our mental condition for a few more years. That, or listen to Ska and blow the weirdness away with trumpets.

 

[vaderaider]

I'm 13 aswell and I don't class myself as mature at all. I Started to think I was more mature than my friends but then I realized it a lot more fun acting my age.

EG,
Waving at random people.

 

[MR T3D]

I throughly doubt any of you kids are really mature.

sure, you can ACT mature, but I doubt many of you could deal with living on your own, paying your own bills, etc.

I thought i was mature for my age when I grew up, but really, I wasn't, and that's something I know now with life experience.
and with this I shall say /thread.

 

[Caligulove]

...You're 13.
Hormones and all kinds of crazy changes are happening to people that age. Loosen your expectations just a bit. Not everyone is the same. I imagine that some would consider you to bee too mature for your age, suggest you lighten up just a little.

People can be a little immature sometimes, what matters most is realizing the times when maturity and other, similar attributes are needed and show how far you have come.

 

[Shaegor]

Heh, I'm 18 and still act as the comic relief character in my group of friends...
I actually wonder if that can be classified as immature

 

[Mahha]

This is turning out to be a wold phenomena.
I have two explanations for this:

a)this forum is for smart and mature people
b)people are getting stupider by the year


oh and the bill problem... I'm 20 and I live at my parents house because I study
I have a small scholarship and with it I cover my monthly share of Internet, electricity and phone bills

 

[SextusMaximus]

My friends are mature enough for a decent conversation, yet childish enough to share a sexual joke every now and again. We're 13, it's a chance to screw and mess around before adulthood, hey?

 

[Alex The Rat]

As long as you're comfortable and have fun with the people you're around, by all means don't feel bad that they're in an older age group. Just remember that part of maturity is also learning not just to tolerate, but to enjoy the company of others (but not EVERYONE), even if their favorite activities aren't quite the same as yours.

Seriously, good luck with everything! That's a very difficult age.

 

[Brandon237]

I felt this way when I was around about 11. I am now 15 and know that while I was more intelligent than most of my class, I was NOT more mature. yes, I know that 15 isn't exactly the pinnacle of wisdom but it does mean I've been in high school a while and I'm guessing you haven't been. you need to relax and just find the people you meld well with. My friends are capable of being very deep but normally have fun bowling, telling jokes etc.

Relax and remember that other people have their reasons for acting as they do. Don't concern yourselves with their behavior.

Oh, piece of advice, don't have a spelling mistake in the title of a topic about maturity...

 

[brodie21]

first of all, it is aren't not arn't that is the proper contraction of 'are' and 'not'

secondly, you are 13, and if you are thirteen you are neither expected to act maturely or are you going to for most of the time. you have to decide to be mature

 

[THEMANWHOIS]

My friend/bandmate is almost 30 and he's the most immature people I know. On the other hand, I work at a middle school and most of the kids there (8th grade in particular) seem way more mature than they should be.

 

[serialver]

My experience is that almost all 13 year olds think they are more mature then they think, this generally last up till about 25 but during these years the said young git (13 year old) does not feel a need to keep maturing because they already believe themselves to be too mature for their age so by the time they are 25 all the other kids have matured, had fun and grown while the 'mature 13 year old' has not had fun, has not matured at all and is now immature or rather as 'mature' as they were 12 years earlier.

Cry me a river.

 

[teutonicman]

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

 

[silasbufu]

How about this premise : "You are not immature enough" . And that's even sadder , at a later age life will hit you in the face and you'll regret not having more "retarded" fun.

Also

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

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[ArcWinter]

Ooh, ooh, I actually have something to say!

Maturity is an illusion. It is an arbitrary standard that means nothing except how much other people trust you, which, if they get to know you, they should trust you anyway. So, maturity is simply a way for people to generalize you. Which we all know doesn't work and is bad. So, you aren't more "mature" than other people, you are just... wiser, I guess would be the closest meaning. And wise people all know that being considered "mature" is another word for "REALLY BORING". In other words, I advise tooling around at maximum retardancy.

As for me, I frequently switch between personalities. I can go from a 4-year old at his birthday party to a 30-year old bored nihilist to a 17-year old anarchist. And I'm only 15. I can't wait until I'm older and have more viewpoints. Gotta catch 'em all.

 

[Ciarang]

Anyone else get this problem? I'm 13 and almost everyone my age isn't mature enough to really do ANYTHING with, I spend most of my social interaction time hanging out with my older brothers friends and people online (Ventrilo), anyone else have to happen to them?

Pretty much this.
I'm 13, I tend to hang out with people a lot older than me, purely because everyone my age is annoying immature.

So, yeah, I do get that problem.

Although, saying this makes me sound like one of the "AMAGAAWD I'M SO MATURE" crowd, which is just annoying.

 

[Bat Vader]

I am 22 and most of the people I know about my age act pretty mature. Yes, some act like they are 12 but I don't really talk to them that much. I don't mind that people have fun but when they are 25 and act like they are 10 is what kinda confuses me.

 

[DustyDrB]

Being mature at age 13 is overrated.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

Anyone else get this problem? I'm 13 and almost everyone my age isn't mature enough to really do ANYTHING with, I spend most of my social interaction time hanging out with my older brothers friends and people online (Ventrilo), anyone else have to happen to them?

Umm. its seems that i agree with you 100000% 13/14yr olds are unbelievably immature now, i know when i was that age i was, but goddamn.. its ridiculous. If I were to make something that its barely close to sexual they blow it out of the water laughing until the next slight thing is said. Unfortunatly some of those people will never change, and the others will just humor them. when i was that age(Back in them golden years, yeah right not that old) i hung out with 25/26/27 yr olds because we were all mature enough.

Good luck..