So I am starting this piece with the one scripture that guides my character. I personally feel that this scripture is the scripture with full content on self-development and attitude adjustment and you would soon find out why I am so particular about this scripture.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 (The Holy Bible)
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
I have read books on self-development and attitude enhancement you know, books that teach you how to boost your masculinity and get the kind of woman that you want and I have resolved that it would have been much easier if love were sold in vials at an old potion shop. You could buy a vial or two when you saw someone who truly loved you, someone for whom you struggled with reciprocating the love. Or better yet, when you reached the age at which you wanted to engage in a relationship, you’d purchase a vial that contained the specific characters you wanted to have and when you drank it or sprayed it (depending on the prescription) the love of your life would be drawn to you. These vials would eliminate the concept of situationships because if you and someone loved each other deeply, then a vial of a situationship antidote could clear all forms of obstacles in the way of your love.
But Love isn’t sold in vials so we lose the people we love to their inability to reciprocate our love, our inability to reciprocate, distance and other elements of the situationship philosophy and as the years go by, we begin to panic that we can neither find the love of our lives nor have them (when we have already found them) so then we settle for less than “perfect”. Or we settle for the pretty girl who has none of the qualities we wanted because our friends will approve of this pretty girl than they would an “unpretty” girl with really slim thighs and a big heart because after all, our friends can’t see her heart, they can only see her face.
Love doesn’t happen and sometimes because we don’t know this, we express love wrong. Love is found and when Love is found, it creates more of its kind. We learn in the bible that God is love and that means the essence of God and His character is love. This means that to find love, we must search for God and adapt His character as beholding in a glass and be changed into His image from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18). Only in doing this do we learn to be the 1 Cor 13:4-7 men and women, boys and girls.
