Loyalty
Loyalty
Loyalty, a seven letter word around which whole humanity is
reloving; though since the dawn of the human civilization it has remained most
needed quality but in the present scenario it has crossed its limits and it has become an integral part of the
modern world. It is that thing which each and every human needs. Here I am emphasizing
the word 'need' because like the way air, food and water are necessary for
sustaining our physical existence in the same way loyalty is at most needed for
sustaining our emotional and social relations. It is that medicine which can
heal any illness arising out of human existence.
Meaning of Loyalty
The dictionary meaning of loyalty is 'a strong feeling of
support or allegiance'. The literal meaning conveys that it is the feeling
arising out of the act of the supporting or adhering. Since human started
living in the form of tribes till the present time each and every person who
had been privileged to become a chief, king, emperor, religious head or a leader
in the modern context, each one has sought a support or adherence from its subjects.
Each of this entity were aware that for smoothly ruling or sustaining their
rein they need support of their people, for that they have adopted different ways.
Some have done it so subtly that their people have given their support with
full heart and will while there were some who had chose the path of tyranny and
atrocases and by force demanded loyalty. It has happened since many years and
it is happening till now and this thing has embedded in our genes that loyalty
is a things which should always be expected from others. Each individual asks
from it from the people in their life. We always complained that others are not
loyal to us, they are not supporting us, and we are very pure at heart. This
disease has spread in most of the human population and day by day this virus is
showing new signs of ruthlessness and servitude.
What loyalty is in its true sense!
The father of the
nation, Mahatma Gandhi has said 'Be the change you want to see in the world.' As
per this quote, if we want to bring any change in the world first we have to
bring that change in us. It always starts with us. If want to make this world clean,
we should start keeping our home and our surrounding clean. If we want to make
everyone happy, first we should make our own self happy. It always starts with the
self.
If we expect loyalty from others, we have to remain loyal to
our own self. Here, the being loyal to own self means supporting our own self.
Are we supporting our own self? Are we remaining faithful to own self? We all
have dreams, vision, values, enthusiasm but we never support that. We
constantly neglect that. We speak lies ,constant lie to our
own self and that is also on a regular basis ; that I am not sufficient, I can't do that, I can't
succeed and on and on. We need to
understand that before expecting support or adherence from others, we have to
expect loyalty from our own self .It always starts from self and if we are able
to do so then we don't have to expect it from others, it will automatically
make its way to our life like a sun ray entering through window pane in the
morning.
Let God help me to remain loyal to my own soul!
Well said ❤
ReplyDeleteThank you very much.
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