Lord Lich Yours Truly is known as Lord Lich. You are allowed to call her 'my lord' or 'my evilness'. She is often found in Volcano numbers 1 and 2, torturing victims, or in number 4, planning more world conquests. Otherwise, she may be found in number 3, sleeping.
Wishlist
The Thursday Next Series - Jasper Fford
Jingo - Pratchett
Hogfather - Pratchett
Going Postal - Pratchett
Tale of Two Cities
Night Watch - Pratchett
Thief of Time - Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment - Pratchett
Stardust - Neil Gaiman GOOD OMENS - Pratchett and Gaiman
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
It is so strange. Everytime after some emotional, trying trial or tribulation, or perhaps just some induced inner reflection, one would look back at times before and feel that they've matured and grown from before, and remark that he or she was 'really naive before'. It matters not how many times this happens, one'll always be more mature in the present as compared to the past, and similarly more so in the future as to now.
Sometimes I wonder if there's actually a state one can reach when he or she'll finally be 'mature'. As a child, one tries to be so by acting older, but as teenagers, one gives in to childish cravings, believing to be mature enough than acting thus. If I had met myself three years ago, I would have slapped her. Who knows how it'll be when one's an adult.
We all know the dictionary meaning of 'mature' - Of, relating to, or characteristic of full development, either mental or physical. But what exactly is this state of 'full development'? We also know what society considers mature. 'Don't fight with you sister, it is immature.' 'It's such a petty squabble. He's so immature.' 'You can't always get your way. Stop being so immature.'
Amusingly, when my mom was saying that last sentence to my sister today, she was the one being immature. She didn't accept criticism, and thus called my sis immature so as to avoid facing the truth. (granted, that brat IS immature and petty and irritating and useless and annoying)
So what exactly is maturity? Or is it just some term we came up and applied connotations to so we could use it on everyone who was making life difficult for us? Many confuse immaturity with childishness. If those who are reading my blog can't tell the difference between those, I will personally go over and slap you.
Is naivety bad? Personally, the only reason I see why that is bad about it is that it acts as rose-tinted glasses, leaving us vulnerable to the cunning and the sly. But if everyone never lost that strand of naivety, everyone would be so much happier. (But the human race would be much weaker, for we'll be content and never bother to strive for greater things.)
Perhaps all we need is to stop all these labelling. We have a right to strive for what we want. Maturity be damned, our character is ours alone and needs no labelling to restrict us.
And as for restricting another's comfort for one's pleasure, well, that is conscience, not maturity.
