Is maturity a complete factor in decision making? Understandably, the decisions we choose from will greater as we become more mature. But does maturity absolutely settle a decision greater?
For example, in relationships, the two people who split up make a decision to keep their distance and separate out of one another lives completely. With this decision, they both seem so set in stone, but the moment a night a passes, not even a complete day, something clicks inside their minds and they make a complete turn around. From there they are talking again, buddy buddy per say, and you're the bystander whose waiting for the ship to crash again. So would you say its an immature decision on their part, when its a repeating offense, or possibly just the person running their decisions of their high emotions? Would that even be immature? To base decisions off of emotions...
Many would say that the bases of any human decision is off of emotion, because we don't know how to separate true logic from emotions, when we're currently in the situation. Humans naturally base life off of past experiences and emotions brought on by what some would call , " gut feelings" So I don't see how that would necessarily be immaturity.
If humans are naturally programmed to base life on emotions, and society sees decisions such as these as rash decisions, then how are we, as human beings, supposed to uphold a standard of maturity in these particular situations?
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Kenzie
Hey great post, im bored so ill comment it haha
ReplyDeleteWell if you take your example a little deeper, lets say you throw in a obstacle, like a baby... You gotta understand that it all changes completely. They will argue, break up, be set in stone and tell each other they will never see them again, but that night they lay in bed looking at the ceiling thinking about the future, the family, the love, the child growing up... Thats when the peoples emotions set in, they realize they have strong feelings for the person and that it was just a argument, every relationship has them.
So is a decision made based off of emotion immature ? no, its simply just a different way of looking at it, and in most cases is actually a pretty mature decision.
If you wanna take it a little further, Most would say that the bases of any human decision is off of emotion, but your confusing emotion, in this case i would call it "stupid" emotion, for example, people who have a small budget, and end up spending twice what they can afford because they want all the cool things in life, i would call that stupid emotion. "smart emotion", in my eyes, fits to our first example, realizing they do love the person, and they do want to hold that person forever, and watch the baby grow with them. As far as rash decisions and how the society sees them, in my eyes, a rash decision can be a smart decision, just because you choose something quickly or you react fast doesn't make it immature, If a boxer took a long time to make a decision, he would lose. If a quarterback took a while to decide who to throw it to, he would be tackled. Life is a lot like games, rash decisions can be stupid, but in many ways they are smart.
- Nick
Sorry if there is a lot of bad grammar, i just woke up and don't feel like fixing it haha...
I liked your examples and felt your thoughts were expressed very well. I too believe many people have rash decisions but that doesn't mean that their decisions were the wrong ones.
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