What Is Loyalty
Friday, August 31st, 2007
| 1. | the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations. |
| 2. | faithful adherence to a sovereign, government, leader, cause, etc. |
| 3. | an example or instance of faithfulness, adherence, or the like: a man with fierce loyalties. |
constancy. Loyalty, allegiance, fidelity all imply a sense of
duty or of devoted attachment to something or someone. Loyalty connotes sentiment and
the feeling of devotion that one holds for one’s country, creed,
family, friends, etc. Allegiance applies particularly to
a citizen’s duty to his or her country, or, by extension, one’s
obligation to support a party, cause, leader, etc. Fidelity implies unwavering
devotion and allegiance to a person, principle, etc.
There
was an individual who approached me and spoke deeply of loyalty, among
other things. We spoke in depth of so many different things
and I truly enjoyed his points of view and understandings of things I
did not know of, or were not clear to me. What I did not
expect was that he is a hypocrite in his words and actions.
I
wonder if a person elaborates and preaches in areas that they lack in?
The need to externally validate what they are not.
Why I put up with this is beyond me. It’s quite
ashame he does not take hold of his own words, for I found much
goodness in him even through his hypocrisy. Of course I am
the opposite of him and tend to find goodness in most, where he finds
weakness in most, and considers emotion a weakness. I can
understand that to some point, but without sadness, we would not know
happiness, without hate, we would not know love. It is up to
us to control our emotions, though I think our minds and emotions that
we have experienced make us who and what we are today. I
would rather feel my soul ache from centuries gone by, than to be
emotionless and robotic to the point of not knowing how to care for
anyone. In all actuality, I feel sorry for this person for he
has great potential and a wonderful mind, yet chooses to hold it and
cage it as if it were a beast.
In
his eyes, this is my weakness. My emotions. Even to
feel sorry for him is a weakness in his perception. Though
when I think about it, it is not I who is weak, but him. I
can feel and face what I feel, where he hides away what should only be
natural (to feel). That is weakness, where you do not have
the strength to face yourself or how you feel. Cold and
lonely he is doomed to be, so yes…….I feel very sorry him.
I
know what loyalty is and believe strongly in it. I also know
it is rare in this day and age. One day when this person
comes out of his own self made hell, he will know what he missed, and
how unfortunate he has made his own life.
