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I was reading "The Best of the World's Classics, by Henry Cabot-Lodge, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (copyright 1906).  It had been a gift many years ago.  I have read it several times, but it had been some years since the last time.

I was so enjoying Cato The Censor - Of Work on a Roman Farm.  A piece of paper fell out onto the floor.  I picked it up and read what I remember was given to me by a friend of long ago.  The paper with the creases so frail:

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.

Maturity is patience.  It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain.

Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks.

Maturity is capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse.

Maturity is humility.  It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it  The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities: then they do nothing.

Maturity means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in a crisis.  The immature are masters of the alibi.  They are the confused an the disorganized.  Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions that somehow never materialize.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which SHOULD be changed - and the wisdom to know the difference.

MATURITY

I don't know where this came, 

it is a very amazing collection. 

But I do remember my friend and our discussion. 

I past this on for you to read. 

Hopefully we all have this maturity,

past it on for others to read,

maybe it will bring different probabilities.  

RaeDi