The meaning of Maturity

Maturing is basically taking your happiness into your own hands. It's not about following anyone's mandates but realizing and creating your own.

It’s about taking 100% responsibility for your life — daring to be who you truly are and living on your own terms, facing all the consequences, both comfortable and uncomfortable, that come with it.

Maturing can mean leaving a job or a relationship that no longer fulfills you, or it can mean beginning to travel — just as it can mean stopping the journey and settling down somewhere, finding stability in a place or a job.

It can mean deciding to become a mother, or not to be one.

It can mean saying what has long been bottled up, or letting go of impulsive emotions and words, and instead looking deeper within to stop blaming others for your pain.

Maturing is both things: letting go of the need to please others’ expectations, and also beginning to accept help and guidance from those more experienced than you, embracing humility as a core value.

Maturing takes infinite forms and possibilities, but they all share this: it is the sacred journey and process of taking accountability for your life and responding directly to the Source that created you.

What makes a person mature is essentially ceasing to be a victim of the system — culturally, socially, familiarly, and above all, personally — learning to deal with your own subconscious.

That’s the essence of a mature person: innocence, purity, spontaneity, and grounding.

The result of this alchemy is discernment.

This quality arises only after one has suffered enough and has walked the path of overcoming addiction to suffering itself.

Once you’ve lived that hero’s journey, you can truly be of help and guidance to others going through the same.

And it happens effortlessly, through the pure vibration you hold that naturally invites sharing.

A mature person accepts and embraces pain fully, but doesn’t identify with or grow comfortable in suffering.

A mature person looks at herself with the courage required to face both light and shadow, and recognizes both openly before the world — without hiding the shameful parts, while fully embracing their inevitable human condition.

Taking charge of your personal power, following your dreams and ideas, and holding the reins of your life isn’t always easy — but that is precisely what differentiates being a girl from being a woman: personal sovereignty.

Today, on my birthday, I can finally say that I feel like a woman.

Perfect in my imperfection, I feel proud of who I am.

If I could be born again and choose my avatar once more, I wouldn’t choose to be anyone else -because I love myself so much, and because I still have so much to accomplish and explore in this unpredictable and fabulous journey called human incarnation.

My enthusiasm and desire to fulfill my dreams grow stronger each day.

Thank you, Source, for granting me one more year of life.

Here’s to many, many more.