A System

Values need a system to enact them on a regular basis.  The system is some organization, coordination and so on so that the values can be lived out on a daily basis.  Sobriety is a value for an addict.  But just wanting sobriety or trying it in some haphazard way will not keep the value active.  Recovery programs are the system of meetings, steps, communal bonding that allow the value of sobriety to be lived out on a daily basis.  The monastic life is a system to allow the value of deep prayer to be lived out.  Both these examples are self supporting.  If you want someone else not in your system to keep it going, you are in a precarious situation.