do you have to suffer in one form or another in order to mature?

Question

explain that.if not, in what other ways did you learn to become more mature? thanks.

Answer 1

Suffering is relative. One 's suffering is another's deliverance. One can be living a life of absolute horror while another complains that they are not getting enough attention in one form or another. One says do you need to suffer to mature yet the reality is that you need to mature before you can even ponder the concept of suffering as being a gateway towards a more evolved form of sentient being.

Answer 2

The question behind the question is:
what is the source of maturity.
or
what is the nature of maturity

Its not merely age.

Is it having a well-enough defined understanding of the world to not react with dramatic inappropriateness? If so then you must be trained. That means you make some action, measure its result against the desired result. Unless you accidentally always get it right you are going to have differences between reality and expectations. Expectations minus reality is disappointment. Therefore you can at least require disappointment in order to mature. Is disappointment the same as suffering?

If you have huge errors, you can have huge learning rates. Those huge errors are associated with huge disappointments. Is a huge disappointment the same as suffering?

Answer 3

maturation, both physically and psychologically, is inevitable and inescapable if your brain is unimpaired. Suffering is a thought process and only exists in imagination. The same body that matures doesn't recognize suffering. You learn to associate particular experiences with the idea of suffering but in reality it doesn't exist. Pain is not suffering. Suffering is the constant and incessant thinking about the experience of pain.

Suffering has nothing to do with maturing.

Answer 4

Even Jesus had to suffer to reach perfection.

He was born perfect in the flesh. However, Paul explains that he had to suffer so as to learn obedience and in that way become perfect in spirit too.

So, unfortunately, the answer to your question is, Yes!

Imperfect humans seem alloted a lot longer time than Christ for this process to reach 'perfection.' (Elaboration possible)

Answer 5

yeah experience

learning doesnt come from realising what we should do or what makes us happy

being smart or mature is knowing what shouldnt be done and what makes us unhappy

maturity is what is left after experimenting and suffering is merely trying all the options

Answer 6

Responsibility entrusted to me and fulfills them in my responsible way, makes me matured.

Fulfilling duties, expected from one to accomplish have been accomplished and been religiously into it, is an indication of maturity.

Answer 7

It's not a matter of maturity, it's a matter of experience . . .experience not to judge, not to be cruel, not to anticipate, . . just let life happen.
Suffering brings you there faster.

Answer 8

Yup. Other people might not see it as suffering though.