Monthly Archives: April 2013

The Truth About Maturity

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(Disclaimer: These views are from me as a guy seeing other guys acting like this. This may or may not apply to girls at all.)

Okay, to start off, I need to clarify five types of maturity (Not in order of how mature it is).

  1. Mature – Has a sense of humor, but not crazy when it comes to trying to make people laugh. Accepts how their friends act. Tries to set a good influence.
  2. “Mature” – Has pretty much no sense of humor. Often pushes their friends down about how their friends act, while pushing themselves up. Can be pretty dull.
  3. Average/Normal – Fairly humorous. Not highly mature, but can be if they want to be. Kind of flows with everything.
  4. Jokester – Very humorous. Not particularly mature. Can sort of be when it is needed. Will try to lift your spirits any chance he gets.
  5. Just doesn’t care – Doesn’t care how people see them, doesn’t care how they act. Pretty much not mature in any way.

Okay, now that we have that out of the way, we can go on to what can make you mature/not mature.

I would call myself in between a 3 and a 4. I can be pretty mature if I want to, but I tend to joke around a lot.

 

Now, I see a lot of kids these days that are “Mature”. If they saw someone like me doing something odd (Purposefully overreacting to stuff, being sarcastic), they would say:

“Dude, why do you always do [insert odd thing here]? You need to be more mature.”

Me: “What’s mature in your eyes?”

“Mature” guy: “I’m mature. You should act like me.”

So you’re saying is I should be a dull guy who pushes everybody below him?

Or at least, that’s what I’ve gotten from most “mature” guys.

Now, I have a lot of friends who are really mature for their age. They don’t try to change how I am, claiming that they should be like them because they’re better.

I look up to my mature friends. I want to be like them without them telling me to be.

 

Alright, what I’m about to tell you may shock and even kill you, but listen closely.

Girlfriends do NOT make you any more mature!

But you’re like: “You’re just saying that because you don’t have a girlfriend!”

It’s true, I don’t. But that doesn’t make me against them.

If anything, girlfriends can make you LESS mature. If you suddenly capture a wild girlfriend, then start bragging to your friends about how you got the best one and that you’re SO happy together, that’s NOT mature.

 

It’s okay if you point out that someone is annoying you by bragging or otherwise, but don’t set yourself as the example for them to change to.

But if you’re the person that is being told not to do or to do something, don’t ignore them, they can see what you’re doing especially since you can’t.

Or else, you’ll end up as a #5 on my list.

 

I came up with this little list of things I think will make you more mature. (I don’t follow half the things on this list, so don’t think I’m trying to put myself above you.)

  1. Don’t brag.
  2. Don’t try to change people by putting yourself as the example.
  3. Try to think about what you’re saying before you say it.
  4. Don’t annoy people.
  5. Don’t ignore people when they point out that you’re doing/not doing one of the things on this list.
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Newton’s Three Laws of Motion and what they mean in simpler terms.

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First Law: Every object continues in a state of rest or in a continuous motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled to change that by forces exerted upon it.

What that means: If you shoot an arrow at a target, it will keep going straight without going down or up unless it is affected by gravity (or your friend Jim) which it will be. Gravity is the force being exerted upon the arrow, pulling it down to the ground.

Second Law: Acceleration is produced when a force is acts on a mass. The greater the mass of the object being accelerated, the greater the force needed to accelerate the mass.

What it means: If you were pulling a fat guy up onto the top of a cliff from the bottom, you would need to pull harder than if you were pulling a skinny guy onto the top of a cliff.

Third Law: Objects interact such that for every force exerted on one, there is an equal and oppositely directed force on the other.

What it means: Say you were sitting in a chair with wheels on the bottom next to a wall. If you push against the wall, you will be pushed backwards. The equal force is where you are pushed back with the force that you pushed on the wall. The opposite force is where you were pushed away from the wall.

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How flying car air traffic could work.

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In my last post, I talked about flying cars and how they are becoming a reality. Now, let’s jump forward in time a few years, to where we have flying cars.

In my own little wishful-thinking future, we have flying cars with wings that need runways to takeoff. We have been using the roads for takeoff for a few days now. But we have a problem.

Unlike normal roads, which have one side of the street going one direction and the other side doing the opposite, we can’t put lines in the sky. We also can’t put stoplights and speed limit signs in mid-air either.

Without these things, people would be crashing into one another, and there could possibly be an average of 20,000 deaths per day in the US (There’s approximately 13,000 deaths every day as of now).

Then we have another problem: landing and taking off. There’s a reason  runways are so long, it’s because it takes about 4 or 5 minutes to slow down.

But I have a solution to all of this: autopilot.

Autopiloted flying cars could reinvent traveling. What you would do is get in your flying car, enter in the address of the person you are visiting, and sit back and do the rest.

The only problem is that all the other flying cars would have to be hooked up to the same system, so that your flying car would know where all the other flying cars are, and be able to avoid them.

Taking off and landing would be easier, too. The autopilot would find the nearest flat road, land there, and drive the rest of the way to your friend’s house.

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