Ideals And The Standards Of Love

The post; “Changes That Make A Difference“, generated a request that has inspired a new post; “Ideals And The Standards Of Love”.

REQUEST
Would love for you to share more of your insights about the “standards of love” (as hinted in the lines below):
-Make a difference by making the changes that are necessary to establish your ideals.
-Ideals should not fall short of the standards of love.

MY RESPONSE
Ideals and The Standards of love are the keywords or should I say, the bones of contention?
I do not have a previous single post that completely addresses those issues to my satisfaction, but I have a few that could build a premise around where I am headed. Taking a look at “You Are A Perfect And A Faultless “You”. You Are Flawless!” and “Advice: Beauty, Admiration, Standards And Self Optimization“, would lay some basic foundation on ideals.
Meanwhile, to do justice to this request, I would have to come up with a completely new and more precise post.

Now, let’s tackle the first extract that necessitated the request for, “Ideals And The Standards Of Love”, which says:
“Make a difference by making the changes that are necessary to establish your ideals.”

Ideals are your most excellent imaginations of what you expect or desire.
An ideal is your most precise imagination, description or expectation of perfect.
An ideal is the most appropriate, most correct or most right alternative.
I have defined ideal in my own words. Sin, in my opinion, is falling short of one’s ideal. Our ideals are based on a cummulative of our knowlege, experiences and faith. Our ideals often play out in reality. When we believe that it is impossible to be perfect, we fall short of our description of perfect because it does not coincide with our belief or faith.
When our expectations coincide with our faith, it is evident in our expressions, attitude and aim.
One who believes strongly in the imagination always reproduces the imagined models in reality.
Most innovations, compositions and creative works manifest through believing conceptions, recognizing the processes to actuallize them and taking the necessary actions that coincide with actuallizing the ideals.
To actuallize your ideals, it is necessary to make certain changes.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein

“The ideal you dream of being is sooner than now and is brought
into being by a change in your reactions to life.” -Neville Goddard

Making excuses, complaining and blaming others, have deprived a lot of people from focusing on what it takes to actuallize their ideals.
Reality always falls to the level of faith.
No man can prove a point that he does not believe.
No ideal is attainable if it is not believed.
Now can you see what it takes to make a difference?
Many people react to life based on circumstances, others conform to the patterns that they see, but those who make a difference believe their ideals and
work accordingly.
I believe that this explanation has given some clarity to the statement:
“Make a difference by making the changes that are necessary to establish your ideals.”

The second extract that necessitated the request for, “Ideals And The Standards Of Love” says:
“Ideals should not fall short of the standards of love.”

Now that we know what ideals mean and we also know that with faith, we can actuallize our ideals, it is also important to note that our ideals must be based on love.
Love makes life beautiful!
Without love, the world would have disintegrated by now.
Love is selfless and seeks to enhance others.
I still have not found any other spoken or written account that best describes my perspective of the standards of love than this:

1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)
If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can
move mountains, but do not have love, I am
nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not
easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will
be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass
away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child. When I became a man, I put the ways of
childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to
face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes:
a. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
b. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames.

Permit me to play around with some rhymes. I recently encountered the word, “Odium”, and I see it as one big trait in people that antagonizes the love in them.
Some people mount the podium to exude odium.
Such foul action, springs from ill intention.
Consider yourself a medium, to put smiles on faces.
When you seize the attention of a stadium, express love.
Don’t feel more important than oxygen or sodium, personify love.
Neither imitate people nor counterfeit the properties of rhodium, become love in person.

Nnamonu Tochukwu.
Teecee.
Ideals And The Standards Of Love.

I came across a prompt that reminded me of ideals: Daily Prompt: I Pledge Allegiance
For me, living up to our ideals, is patroitism.

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