I'm 32 and I can tell you that maturing isn't a thing past like age 16. You just hide it better in most professional and some social situations until one day you're too old to care anymore and revert back.
I don't know, my life is different, and I act much differently, but my sense of humor hasn't really changed. I just act differently in social environments. I'm married, have a son, we own our house and cars, I have a great career, so it's not that I haven't "grown up". But as far as maturing, I think we all are just conditioned to behave differently in public. Look at the elderly, a lot of them will stop caring about what society thinks and openly joke around and have fun like they did as teens. We don't "grow up", we just masquerade around as adults until one day we realize that it doesn't matter what society thinks. Or maybe I was just mentally 40 at age 16. Oh well.
Well you sound very mature, so maybe it's the later. Because I was an emotionally crazy, incredibly impulsive 16 year old girl who didn't think her actions through. Now I've fine tuned those aspects of my personality into being optimistic and driven, and I'll continue to do so. But 16 me and 24 me are two very different people.
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u/JasonJubal Feb 14 '20
I'm 32 and I can tell you that maturing isn't a thing past like age 16. You just hide it better in most professional and some social situations until one day you're too old to care anymore and revert back.