MATURITY Someone said to me that "maturity is about the way you comprehend and perceive the world around you. It is how you consider other's feelings and choose your words around them with care and how you respond to challenges with grace. It is reflected in what you hold dear and what you choose to allow in your life. True maturity is in how you carry yourself and represent those around you as an adult. Growing old is like growing up." I contemplated upon the above thesis of maturity. It is the kind of maturity that most successful people in the world uphold. But I asked myself a question; Are all these mature minds happy? Sadly, you know that they are necessarily not happy. Growing up does not make sense or bring happiness unless you grow deeper into your own self. Most people forget to grow deeper into themselves even when they make claims about their maturity. Jesus was right when he said, "If you don't become like those children, you won't enter the kingdom of God." He was not referring to the worldly maturity of serious and successful people of the world. Worldly maturity brings seriousness but not happiness . When you grow deeper into your own self, you become like children. You become playful and unpredictable like Krsna and Sreeramkrisna paramhansa. Mature people are highly predictable in their nature. Maturity of the world will not bring happiness if you are not playful like Krsna. Uncertainty brings an adventerous spirit into life. Love is always an adventure. The mature people of this world often miss the beauty of adventures of unpredictable missions. Krsna gave the most mature advice to Arjuna about life. Don't glorify worldly maturity or success. Death will make them worthless. It will only make you look like a serious animal with a serious wrinkled face. Nothing more than that. Wildflowers enjoy themselves more than the tall trees that struggle to grow deeper.

Two of my friends visited us today. I wanted to entertain them with my skills of doing a steak braai. It's not a very easy task for me because I am still learning the ropes of making a good steak. At the end of the day, literally, while the sun was going down into the ocean before my eyes, I pulled off a great steak dish and served it with mashed potatoes and salads. The synchronicity was obvious to me from the angles of the love light from the sunset that blessed my performance. We had a good time together. Roderick and Abe came to embark upon a new phase of their life by constructing a house for Roderick's cousin in the Darling Green Country Estate, where I, too, have a stand to build. In fact, I was contemplating the services of them for my building as well. His cousin bought the stand following my advice. However, I had decided to postpone the construction of my house due to various issues related to finance and the fear of being a guinea pig for his construction adventure. Once his cousin's house is finished, I will have a spec house for my benchmark to consider them again. Roderick had been struggling with his career, and I will be the happiest person if he gets a breakthrough with this new venture.

I wake up in the morning and feel the vibes of a sobbing humanity. The ocean that hums a few meters away from my bedroom sets a sad tone to it. I am grateful to existence for not losing my soul. I remain sad during most of the waking hours of the day because I have to deal with the thoughts and actions of a lot of soulless characters in the simulation. I tend to spend more time with nature and silence rather than indulging in conversations. I wish I could meet up some men or women who share their thoughts soulfully. Why have they not become aware of their own receding souls?