User blog comment:KawaiiUnicorn/Why I'm leaving CC chat (Or not showing up as often)/@comment-3562424-20150913010639/@comment-25035274-20150919160528

I've made no claims regarding my maturity, though. And I've actually been taught entirely the opposite; that you only get one shot at a first impression. Best to put your best foot forward and all that rot. Granted, I don't always choose that path, but it is something I've learned through life.

In any event my point is fairly simple, so I'll stop beating around the bush. You don't like being around people that you think of as less mature than yourself, which can be an understandable desire. The problem is that you fail to realize that you may not be behaving in what is exactly the most mature manner yourself, thereby turning you into one of those silly teenagers by proxy. You are presenting yourself as the very thing that you don't want to be associated with.

If you don't want to be around, or don't want to be conflated with, silly teenagers? Don't behave like one. Don't make loud proclamations about how above it all you are, as that generally proves to people that you actually are not above it all.

Loudly proclaiming how a chat has gone downhill because more people have shown up, and they're behaving exactly as you did when you first showed up roughly one year ago (gauging by your wiki history) does not mark you as an individual vastly more mature than they. A year really doesn't make that much of a difference, though I know it seems like it when you're still a teenager (whether you consider yourself silly or not isn't particularly important to what I'm getting at). Honestly, one day you won't feel the need to prove how mature you are and while yes, people will still irritate you, you'll learn better ways to deal with it.

Take a lesson from one of the great films of the nineties. The Dude abides. Be like The Dude.