What does loyalty mean? Why is it one of the most important values? For many of us, we might have had loyalty based issues. For example, a family member choosing a stranger before you, a parent telling you that they love a sibling more than you, having someone in a relationship with you do something wrong (like cheat or lie to you about what they do). Most of our relationships are built on trust and loyalty, especially friendship. Friendship has always been important to me, and when someone abandons someone in an act to help themselves they are the worst kind of people.
I have seen this a lot of different times twice against me and many others times against other men and women and everytime i see it it makes me hurt a little i think about all those disloyal people who will take advantage of others loyalty for their own self gain and they usually don’t suffer much themselves and the ones who do suffer are the loyal ones we build relationships on loyalty and friendship and when one person lies to the other they will keep lying until they are caught and they will keep lying they will stop when they have accomplished what they wanted but in the end the hurt only the loyal person and it’s just very sad to see. Disloyalty can happen from a lot of things like, telling your friend a secret and then having them tell a person you dislike or spreading it around.
So even though many of us have been loyal and have never betrayed the trust of some of our friends and nothing has ever happened to us it is still important to remember these events and learn from them. I’m not saying everyone is like this but this is why loyalty is important we can trust some people but in the end there will be someone who is trying to get something out of you. We should care about who we make a friend and why we chose to make them a friend.
There is a quote out there and many will agree that “blood is thicker than water” meaning the most important relationships we can have are loyalty in the family. It is important to build up these bonds with the people we love the closest if we do not loyalty will not form by ignoring someone you love or talk to just for a bit on end it will come through hard work we must set and example through our actions and words if it is easy for us to go behind someones back and do things and then act a certain way around them.
We must look in our hearts and think about how lucky we are to have them how much we meant to them and what the relationship truly is, sometimes if we fail to build up the loyalty in our familys a friend might end up being closer and That isn’t a good thing when someone can say I trust my best friend more than my mother or father there’s something wrong in the family and i don’t mean things you usually don’t say to a parent like I have a crush on somebody or this one time I spelt chocolate all over my bed and my parents never found out I mean things like I have a serious problem with an addiction and i can’t go to my parents because in the end they will betray me and never forgive me for a mistake i have commited.
References
- https://samploon.com/free-essays/loyalty/
- https://hbr.org/amp/2021/03/the-importance-of-building-trust
- https://geoguessr.com/user/agencytoprankingseo
- https://extensio.co.uk/the-importance-of-building-loyal-customers-for-your-business/
- https://www.businessknowhow.com/marketing/build-customer-loyalty.htm