The dictionary defines loyalty as the state or quality of being consistent, loyal, faithful to a government,a company, family or friends. I felt duty bound to make that distinction right off the bat, because it seems most people don't know what loyalty is anymore. It doesn't matter if your talking about a company you work for, who have seen you through difficult times, time after time. Many find it so easy to simply up and leave that company with very little warning, no provocation, and certainly with no qualms whatever as to whether said company might go through hard times, if your notice isn't sufficient for them to replace you before you leave. Certainly, faithfulness is not a factor in most relationships these days. Even marriage doesn't deter spouses from cheating, should they find a partner that pleases them, and the opportunity.Loyalty,apparently doesn't even cross peoples minds. It's all about, what feels good. Personally, when I think of loyalty, honor also enters into the picture. How can a person feel good, when in the back of their mind, it has to nag just a bit, that they have been, not only dis-loyal, but dis-honorable as well? In addition, they have betrayed trust, and so faithfulness, or lack thereof, has got to come into the picture as well.
What I want to know is, when did this all happen? Not so long ago, if a man or woman gave you their word they would do something, you shook hands on it, or gave you a ring, and that was your pledge to be faithful to your word.There was such a thing as having a reputation for keeping trust, loyalty, faithfulness...and by the same token, persons who did not keep their word, also got reputations. These were the ones who did not do well in the business world, because they had bad reputations. Right along with that, was the reputation a woman would earn for herself, for being faithful, loyal to her husband, or boyfriend, or for being unfaithful, and untrustworthy. A girl with a bad reputation was not invited to gatherings of polite society, and was not in a good position to marry well.This line of demarcation for women seems to have blurred now, and no matter what kind of reputation she has, she can get along in the world pretty well, if she has the right friends, connections,or money, or the right clothes,and if she is young and lovely to look at.But,unfortunately for her, this kind of acceptance will not last. For a man or a woman, in the end, it will all come down to the reputation they have earned,whether it is in their job history, of the career they have had so far, or if it is a reputation of a more personal nature, what a person does, sooner or later, will come back to haunt them. When you've lost your looks, or your down on your "luck"and lost your job or your money,or your friends find out they can't count on you, whatever it is, however it happens, you lay the groundwork yourself,and your history will find you out. It really is true,what they told you in elementary school. Your school records will follow you the rest of your life...and so will your history of loyalty, faithfulness,and trust. Which is too bad for some of you, because you have walked away from those who counted on you for something,knowing you were letting them down,and not caring. What you wanted to do was far more important at that time, than the welfare, feelings, or future of anyone or anything else. Should you doubt the truth of my words, you have only to look about you to see the number of say, domestic violence cases, where beatings, or even killings take place. Somewhere in that mess, someone was betrayed, someone's honor was compromised,someone was disloyal. Unfaithful.Serious injury or death was the result. In order to reverse this horrible trend, we need to back track just a little, and re-discover LOYALTY and FAITHFULLNESS, or the bloodbath will not only continue, but increase. So, my final point in this whole thing is this. Lack of loyalty, and faithfulness, is not just a silly little nit-picky concern of mine, that has no effect on you whatsoever.
Lack of Loyalty can get you killed. Dead.Forever and forever. I don't know why, maybe I am odd, but I just thought you should know that!
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