<p>In your opinion, what are the characteristics of a mature person?</p>
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<li>A person who doesn’t laugh at 140 decibels for every joke.</li>
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<p>not having a sense of humor is mature?</p>
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<li>They don’t have feel the need to constantly state that they are more mature than those around them.</li>
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<li>they can act as immature as they want and not give a crap about the judgment of others</li>
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<li>They accept other opinions.</li>
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<li>The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed.</li>
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<li>You realize that life has choices, responsibilities, and consequences. You accept each of those fully, and make no ill-will in doing so.</li>
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<li>A person who laughs at 140 decibels for every joke.</li>
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<li>You see a fight at school and realize that you feel sorry for the people involved.</li>
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<li>You don’t have a scene that you need to categorize yourself within. One night at home doing things that you need to do, doesn’t constitute ‘loser’ in your mind and you don’t need to clip onto a group just to prove you hang out every day with everyone. You hang out with people because you miss them/have fun with them–not to keep up a scene or an image.</li>
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<li>You know that 7.7/8 of your friends in your social life will not be there for you once you leave high-school, therefore you must do things for yourself and nobody else. Not to say that being greedy is great, just make sure that if you are going to do things for someone else they are either family or worth it.</li>
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<li>Being in control of one’s self at all times.</li>
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<li>Not giving a damn what others think of you or your behavior.</li>
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<li>Being brave enough to approach someone first</li>
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<li>Being able to take criticism.</li>
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<p>15: Realizing that Obama is probably not a Muslim, that evolution exists, that global warming is real and is very likely due to human activity’s CO2 (but that also it’s hard to project temperatures in the future), that there probably was no conspiracy behind 9/11 or JFK’s assassination, and that Obama was actually born a US citizen.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, >50% of adult Americans fail at least one of these tests.</p>
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<li>Accepting others belief, not caring about others race, being open-minded, and more tolerant.</li>
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<li>Knowing that you probably do care about that person more than they care about you. And that most relationships are not balanced.</li>
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<li>Figuring out that in the end, none of it will matter.</li>
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<li>Being able to skip number nineteen</li>
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