Essay: Loyalty

Loyalty is like trust or friendship. When someone is loyal they want the person that they are loyal to succeed. Truly loyal people do what they can to help the one they are loyal to accomplish what they want to accomplish. The truly loyal feel no bother when helping someone they are loyal to. There are many forms of loyalty including loyalty to a crown, kingdom, or county, loyalty to a person or group, or loyalty to an idea or belief. Everyone is loyal in more than one way. A person can be loyal to their country and the current ruler of that country, that person can also be loyal to their religion and also their family and friends. Very few people are loyal on only one way, even less are not loyal at all.

True loyalty is the best kind; it’s strong and lasts for-nearly-ever. Loyalty to a county can be like that, or even loyalty to a religion. True loyalty is not blind loyalty; those who are truly loyal follow those who they are loyal to. They do so with some thought they don’t just do it because the person they are loyal to said so. In most cases people or groups that one can be truly loyal to are worthy of that loyalty, but sometimes no one knows exactly what the group wants but some people are still loyal to them. This type of loyalty is strange and very blind. Ignorant loyalty is not true it’s the opposite of true loyalty. People of groups that are worth being loyal to have a reasonably open demeanor; they share their ideas and beliefs, they tell people what their intentions are, and they are true to what they say.

People can be loyal in many ways. The most common type of loyalty is to one or more countries. This includes loyalty to your homeland and to the place you live, even the land of your ancestors. Loyalty takes time to develop and even longer to make permanent. Some types of loyalty can be passed down through generations. Loyalty is sometimes implied or strongly suggested by the government or another group. Some people are “loyal” just so that they can say that they are ‘loyal’ to some group or idea that may be ‘cool’ or appealing to others. This so called loyalty is pointless and fleeting. It never evolves into true loyalty or anything else that resembles it.

Loyalty is everywhere everyone is loyal to someone or something. Though it is a sick and twisted slave-like loyalty even drug addicts are “loyal” to their drugs and/or drug dealers. Real loyalty is better for your health and mental stability and much more common. The few that are loyal to none are either very paranoid or have lost their ability to trust due to involvement in gangs or other crime. For the most part loyalty is a good thing and most people are loyal to something. Be it religion, country, a group or person, or some combination or these. Most people are loyal to more that one person, group, idea, county or place. These loyalties are not always of equal strength however, they are usually staggered with one or two being stronger and the rest being equally or progressively weaker.

Loyalty is important it is one of the glues that hold society and people together. Loyalty doesn’t come in a set amount it has varying degrees. People can be strongly loyal or weakly loyal and even somewhere in between. True loyalty can last for-nearly-ever it’s the strongest kind of loyalty and true loyalty is above other types of loyalty after loyalty reaches a certain degree of strength it becomes true loyalty. Loyalty can come in many different forms. It can be slave-like or happy and constructive. Loyalty develops in many ways and it always takes time to do so. Nobody can become passionately loyal to someone over night. Loyalty is an important and part of our world it strengthens and hold is together. Loyalty is one of the many types of glue that hold the world together and it is also one of the strongest next to love and friendship.