Certain experiences mark the beginning of maturity. Now of course there are all the generic things that everyone thinks fits this category, such as getting your drivers license, or moving out of your parents house, but most of the experiences that mark the beginning of maturity are not in fact physical happenings, but instead things that can happen inside the human mind. Such things as realizing the difference between "wants" and "needs," as well as accepting responsibilities for ones actions.
Many people grow up in our modern day capitalist society, and take much for granted. Babies and small children often get what they want, when they want. They think that they "need" it, even though it is usually simply an accessory of life, and is essentially pointless to their survival. But that doesn't deter them in any way, they still "need" this item, even though they only want it, and do not in fact need it. Whether they lack the rational thinking skills to realize that they don't actually "need" it, or if they are just too young to know or care. Even some adults these days lack these skills, they decide to go out and buy big TV's and other pointless things, often with credit cards, when they have no money to actually buy such things, and the store is more than willing to cash in with these fools, with their decrepit minds, who buy first, and rack up credit card debt second, and then think third. In most ways, the adults who choose to do this are not quite mature; even though they are mature in age, and body, they are immature in mind, which is more crucial to the survival of a human being.
Everyone has, at one point in their life thus far, done something wrong, and have failed to do anything about it. Mostly evident in immature children who fear the possible consequences of their actions, and choose to not tell anybody of what they did wrong. They do not have such a sense of right and wrong, they are bent on what benefits them the most. But when someone find what the other has done wrong, they can be blamed for something they have not done, or they could be forced to clean up what a careless individual accidentally did. Perhaps some of these people simply live too much "in the present," believing that they will deal with it later. But then they keep thinking that and procrastination takes over, and nothing gets done. Some people also just might think that if they don't tell anyone, no one will know that it was their fault, and thus they wont get into trouble, and thus solving the problem. Well unfortunately, that is a bad belief to hold in modern day society, and those who choose to take responsibility for their actions are definitely more mature than those who do not
Maturity is a difficult thing to describe, but there are definitely certain experiences that can mark the start of maturity in humans. Such experiences are vast, and almost innumerable, but many of them cannot be described, and to achieve all of them, even in a lifetime, would be particularly difficult. Nonetheless, two of such experiences are evidently the ability to distinguish between "needs" and "wants," and accepting responsibility for ones actions. These are very important parts of truly developing and becoming mature, and if one were to not accept these traits, they could find themselves in a lot of trouble down the road
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