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Grow Up!

No! This is not a Moms blog entry but allow me to start asking like moms do

Grow Up: Adult versus Child

Have you ever ask yourself this question: “what is the difference between me and a child?” The instantaneous answer shall be something like “hello! I grow up; I am an adult!” Okay, it seems like we are back to school so let me ask another question: “what is the meaning of being an adult?” Well, Oxford dictionary defines it in terms of maturity as the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed.

At the first glance, this is right since day after day time passes away therefore you find yourself growing up and getting older but what about being wiser? That is the question!

A wise person is the one who makes the right thing in the right time, so maturity – from my point of view – means the capability of individuals to use their own tools for implementing the knowledge they acquired throughout their life in order to reach the state of welfare, so a human being can seek knowledge through reading and thinking in order to reach his (and her) own perspective for different situations. This sheds light about why a child needs mommy and daddy; because children neither have knowledge nor tools to do such implementations, therefore they are being raised or in other words “guided” until they understand how stuff works and start there own thousands-mile way to go.

In the light of this, I think I can explain why sometimes we meet people who are physically adult but actually behave like children and I do not use the common term “act like teenagers” because teenager are supposed to have the tools and the knowledge according to their personalities; hence, you can find wise humans among them where as cannot find in some adults sometimes according to my perspective for maturity.

Furthermore, what is mentioned up seems valid for me on the minor scale; the individuals, and the major one; society and civilizations. In other words, what applies for humans is the same for their civilizations yet the tools just slightly differs. Consequently, I think this models form my point of view why Islam urged people for knowledge pursuance; to implement not to acquire and full stop!

In a nutshell, ask yourself the second question that is mentioned at the beginning of the blog entry and you shall discover that it is not only about growing up physically but also mentally, socially and humanely too which simply means a continues growth for our human intellect through rational thinking or else we are morally dead even if physically alive!

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