This can go out to high schoolers, parents, anyone who is older than me or older than whoever reads this.
Here's something that bugs me about you:
You think you're more mature than me, like you know more than me. Just because I was born slightly after you, you believe this makes you better than me or somehow on a different level.
In my opinion that makes you far less mature. The way I see it, maturity has nothing to do with the way someone acts in public or someone's sense of humor. Anyone can laugh at a pun or snicker at a hickey on their girlfriend's chest.
Maturity is about how someone handles themselves at a time when it actually matters. If there is a conflict or if there is a conversation that is slightly more profound in content than talking about the weather or new shoes.
More than that, though, maturity, like any other art or emotional concept is a spectrum, not separated into levels based on something as superficial as age (especially with an age difference as insignificant as one or two years.) Just like art or love or music or the balance between good and bad, maturity is simply subjective, based on a person's life and views and personality, not based on a number.
So to conclude this little rant: you're not more mature than me. You just have a different perspective on what maturity means. There is no "more" or "less" there is only "different."
Sincerely,
Junior
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