That good illustration of yours defines immaturity when you were in school and your later act matured because of the life lessons you learnt. Sometimes things like this to happen to us, so that we can instantly switch from imaturity to maturity.

Using your hard-earned money to settle your academics score was a sign of weakness an imaturity. I'm happy for you now that you took the bold step to act matured by facing your academics and its problem alone.

There's this problem the older people have, it's not listening to advise or agree to learn from the youth. If your Aunty didn't find you and get the Android phone which you advised her to buy, what would have happened? Life is such, we're always open ro learning despite our age.