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You Are Always Growing Up To The Highest Ideal Of Your Self

Rod Jones Artist-writer
2 min readSep 27, 2023

You Are Always Growing Up To The Highest Ideal Of Your Self: Maturation can be a wonderful thing if you apply it to your life’s experiences. All too often, we place it in one of two categories, good or bad. The good is when we understand the things that positively happen for us are actually shaping our maturity. Now let’s address the bad things that happen in our lives. Life is not always fair as various sages throughout the ages have assured us all to be the case. As much as I personally hate to agree with this, the bad stuff we experience and live through sharpens our skills in life and causes us to mature. When you live through it you grow through it.

Ideally, the more we understand what instigates the bad outcomes in our lives, it should put us in a better frame of mind to avoid or deal with the next one that comes around more productively and positively. From the minute we are born we are always growing and hopefully learning. Learning to solve problems and developing coping skills. Moving us towards what we would like to think is our best selves. Make that our best happy selves.

Maturity happens… it’s happening right now to both you and I, if you reading this. I may be causing you to think about what you perceive to be your ideal self. For me, I have to think about my own life experiences and the impact those…

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Rod Jones Artist-writer
Rod Jones Artist-writer

Written by Rod Jones Artist-writer

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