Loyalty. It seems a strange concept these days. To choose to be loyal to a person, or an ideal/ concept/ belief in the face of adversity has clearly gone out of fashion.
I’ve read toomuch Austen, fallen asleep clutching Bronte novels, aspired to the ideals of Hosseini...
I’ve read toomuch Austen, fallen asleep clutching Bronte novels, aspired to the ideals of Hosseini...
This dog eat dog world, where everyone is out for themselves and no one stands up for their friends. It’s heartbreaking how we have lost one of the most fundamental and important ideals of humanity.
Loyalty.
Loyalty.
I was taught as a child loyalty was a fundamental trait of a disciplined person. That to invest your loyalty in a person or a belief was a leap of your character and a gift to the person who received it. That loyalty, even misplaced loyalty made you a better person
And that loyalty was set. Once you made your choice to be loyal, you stuck with it. Because you know....you were loyal.
Loyal to a fault. That’s me.
Nottingham Forrest is my football team. I didn’t jump ship just because they sucked for the last 15 years.
Loyal to a fault. That’s me.
Nottingham Forrest is my football team. I didn’t jump ship just because they sucked for the last 15 years.
I’m still a Raiders fans and a Cowboys fan no matter whether they win or lose.
And if you’re my friend. Your my friend till the end. No matter what. Regardless of what others think or say. And even regardless of whether you make decisions or have ideas I don’t agree with sometimes.
Loyalty means standing up for my friends
Loyalty means standing up for my friends
It means sticking my neck out. It means not allowing others to trash them. If you’re talking shit about my friends, you better not say it in front of me. I don’t sit there listening to someone bad mouth a friend. That’s weak and disingenuous. That’s not loyalty.
If you tell me a secret, I keep it. If you ask for advice I’ll give it. When you don’t listen to my advice I’ll laugh. But I won’t talk behind my friends backs, in fact I never say ANYTHING I wouldn’t say to someone’s face.
If I think my friend is in trouble, I might confide in another with respect. But I don’t talk shit about my friends, ever. I don’t have many close friends. I have a core group. And those friends I will leap into trenches under a hail of bullets with. Their battles are my battles
This is loyalty. And loyalty is good.
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