Maturity is what makes you laugh at your failures, savor them with a certain nostalgia, and have a sense of your progress in life or in anything from the simplest and silliest to the most complex, and it also makes you realize that your limits do not define you.
Innocence is only lost when you allow, too abruptly and as a reflex of affliction, your pain to command your heart and mind, setting you on a path of needing to feel superior or a priority, avenged, or not allowing others to laugh at your failures, fears, or anything else. Maturity teaches you to separate traumatic moments from tedious or simple ones and teaches you that even anger is an instrument of inspiration and strength, but only when the enemy or problem is truly something that needs to be addressed.
And, contrary to what people think, maturity doesn't bring authority by itself; it depends even more on how you react to the world around you, your patience with others' mistakes, and your self-defense against immature or ignorant people. Unfortunately, maturity can come in a very heavy form, but it shouldn't hinder certain joys in life for long. You can still laugh at "silly" things, but never laugh at others or impose your pain as something that needs avenging, or even predominantly your reality. Taking a path of berating yourself to always be serious is to turn maturity into a huge, unbearable burden that prevents you from tolerating problems and having patience with things that are irritating or that don't seem to lead to progress.

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