Mind is like a baby!

I remember my dad telling me one day:

"There is a hidden child within every adult".

We were actually discussing the behaviour of a 40+ villager and I had for some reason found her personality very childish. We all have a belief over a thought that greater the age of a person, higher would be his level of maturity. In some cases this age-old assumption does strike a bow. But what happens when you come across an individual who was successful enough to reduce the intensity of your belief? Would you just call him 'immature' and walk off or would you look more deep into the matter? 

If I were in your case, I would love to carry a little bit of investigation. Yesterday I was feeling a bit sad over a certain issue. My mind kept me restless and I was narrating a negative thought over and over in my head, like chanting a mantra. After some time I regained my inner peace by having a deep insight into the reason behind my sadness. That is the period when I discovered a new topic for my blog:

Human mind is like a small baby. 

Well I know it may sound absurd. But I feel that it may contain a tiny drop of reality. Just like a baby craves for happiness and cries loudly when he finds himself in a despicable situation, the same way we love to receive pleasure and hate to gain pain, either by complaining about it or avoiding it all together. This is very obvious and simple. Let me explain you with more examples. 

When I was leading my life in my native place, I saw a small girl of 5 years yearning to gain attention of a one year old baby. She called her many times, running around the woman who was carrying the small baby, desperate to play and have a quality time with the innocent child. However the baby didn't show much interest in that 5 year old girl. She grew angry and later that emotion paved the way for tears. 

How many times have you, as an adult, grew upset just because someone you like didn't bother to spread a smile? Or how many times have you become angry just because a friend who messages you the most, has suddenly stopped being in touch? It is an emotion that we experience millions of times as we all love to gain attention, praise and also an urge to get pampered. In some people the drive that accelerates this desire is very high and hence they are termed as 'attention seekers'. 

Is there any universal definition of maturity? What according to you is maturity? As per the idea which has been sent to me by an unknown force, it refers to a state wherein a human slowly learns to understand the behaviour of it's own mind. When one learns to differentiate among his thoughts and choose out those which can generate an ideal response as per the situation, then that person can be truly called as a matured person. 

Treat your mind as a small baby who loves to have a possession over toys. Now compare those toys with praise, power, money, success, attention and so forth, keeping in mind the things which you would dream to chase. Then just as a small child holds your finger and takes you to the market place to buy toys, your mind would take you to the real world to accomplish it's wishes. But be aware. If you don't stop the child and make him listen to you when it is needed, the child would go out of control, in turn making you exhaust all your energy in just running behind it. 

So one has to be extra careful. Just as a parent has to analyse his budget and provide the child with gifts he is capable of giving, one must listen to his soul for understanding his capability that would make him enjoy the fruits of his achievement.