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I think a lot about words that society says are one thing and I think are another, like “good” or “love”. “Maturity” has been bothering me for a while, and I finally got a solid definition. Maturity: Having a refined personality and being experienced. Refined as in set in manner - not excellent, acceptable, appropriate or any of that. Theres probably a better word for it but my vocabulary sucks.

While on the subject of understanding words, heres one description I like; “Beauty? I don’t use the word beauty anymore. Never. It’s not that the thing itself is beautiful. It’s the relationship that you establish that makes something beautiful. And so the word ‘beautiful’ is not an absolute It’s a moment, I would say. It’s more like a moment in which you look at something and you feel alive, you feel that you are enjoying something. And that is a moment of poetry, pleasure, revelation, thinking." - Gabriel Orozco