Doc Monocle
Smash Ace
If I invented a dictionary, the first entry I would use for 'Maturity' would probably read something like this:I'm curious, how would people define an adult-child lifestyle?
N . The evolution of a living being's behavior or form with time, comparable and relative to its expected end state or initial state.
To me, maturity is not an option, but a necessity. Every living thing whose behavior or form changes matures. For example, a tree grows up from a sapling. We say that it has matured. What if that tree was misshapen as it developed? Would we say that it then ceases to mature? What if the tree was cut down, and began decaying (It is no longer alive)? Did it cease to mature? I would venture to say that we must reverse the flow of time, or halt it to see that a thing fails to mature.
Having said that, a thing can mature favorably or unfavorably, but that is a different question entirely. In short, we all mature, but into what?