Loyalty is a moral and ethical concept, immutability in relationships and feelings, in the performance of a duty, duties, steadfastness and honesty. To be true to one’s beliefs and principles means to have a firm stand.
Love above all
Human relationships are based on honesty. Families collapse, friendship breaks, betrayals are committed primarily because of lies, hypocrisy. Therefore, from time immemorial, people have been praised for their fidelity in love. This is the most valuable quality in a person.
Being faithful in love does not mean only physically not changing. Loyalty is a broader concept. And in grief, and in the joy of being around, sharing with the chosen one all the hardships and troubles, taking care of him, helping him contrary to his interests - that’s what this means.
Adultery is a betrayal
Unfortunately, after some period, many people begin to feel that bright passionate feelings fade. Accepting this as a loss of love, they begin to look for a replacement for their chosen one, violating the promise made once. So family ties are destroyed.
Even worse, when people do not even believe that loyalty is one of the most important components of human relations. Outwardly preserving the former connection, the couple quietly cheated on their soul mates.
Today the expression has become fashionable: "The main thing is to be true to yourself!" This is perhaps correct. Why keep relationships if they have already rotted? This is also a betrayal, even despite the fact that externally and physically everything remains at the same level.
For a friend to death and torture
A person must be honest with his loved ones. It is just as shameful to betray the chosen one in love, just as it is shameful to break friendly ties. Loyalty is the immutability in relationships and feelings.
There are cases when one friend took upon himself the guilt of another, sometimes sacrificing his freedom, health, life. This is a beautiful feat that has been praised by poets and writers since ancient times. Although there is nothing supernatural in such behavior, the concept of fidelity was originally implanted in living things.
Faithfulness and devotion in the animal kingdom
People bring up in children such traits as honesty, devotion, immutability in relationships. However, fidelity is a quality that is inherent in most creatures in the animal kingdom. For example, swans, wolves, foxes, dolphins only once choose their mate. Change of partner for many mammals is equivalent to physical death. This happens at the level of instinct, the animal simply cannot live otherwise.
Why is everything different for people? Why do some easily forget about fatherhood and motherhood, about the earlier vows of love and friendship, and break their promises?
This is likely due to the fact that the connections themselves were initially dishonest. By the word “love” people understood the usual physiological attraction, they chose a friend according to their place of residence or financial position, they gave the word because at the moment it was profitable.
Honesty in everything - this is the main rule of man
In order not to have to blame yourself for treason, you should always remember that fidelity to the word is the basis of all the foundations in the world. His vows should be taken very seriously. Honesty is the most valuable human quality.
That is why people are required to have a clear understanding of their positions, a firm conviction in the chosen course. The principles of life should become for everyone the basis of behavior, life priorities. And the task of adults is to instill in the growing personality a responsibility for their actions and words, to lay the correct concepts about morality.
Principle and unprincipled
Often people make mistakes, such is nature. The world around is changing, human views are changing. In childhood and adolescence, the personality is dominated by a strict polarity of opinions. Good or bad, love or hate, right or wrong - these and only such there are distinctions in concepts. The absence of transitions, shades in relationships at this age is a common phenomenon.
Over time, people become wiser. They discover the most subtle nuances of psychology. It turns out that a drunkard and a rowdy neighbor in the past heroically defended his children, because of which he committed a manslaughter and was convicted. In prison, he changed, the loss of his family left an imprint on his character. So is it necessary to despise him with his previous hardness for his current state? Or is it worth changing your attitude towards a person?
The principles are sometimes worth adjusting. Especially when they touch people nearby. Therefore, it is not always necessary to place one’s integrity above humanity. And a change in such attitudes is not at all considered a manifestation of unscrupulousness. It is rather life wisdom.