letting the values we know become the values we live by

Someone said values are caught and not taught.


On first instinct, i believed in that argument.


But yesterday something happened that made me realise that that is not true. When people know the values but do not put them in practice.

Many times, we know values. We know what is right and wrong. They were taught to us. Whether in school, by the media, by parents, or however, values were taught to us. We are taught values.

However, living out the values, letting the values we know become the values we live by, knowing in the head and knowing in the heart, that is the part that we as people have to do. We need to put into practice that which we know in our heart that we may be able to go from knowing to doing.

The final step is being. When we finally realise that people around us are picking up from our habits, when the values we hold true and live by are being caught, then we have gone from doing to being.

Check our hearts. What are the values we hold to be true? What are the foundations of those values? Do we grasp the urgent need to hold those values as true and do the actions that exhibit the values? And then do we cross the line to allow those values not just to shape us but also to be our life?