Loyalty

Loyalty ©

By Michael Casey

I was just watching SUITS on Dave channel 111 on Sky, it’s about a law firm in Manhatten.  It made me think about Loyalty, why are  we loyal and what makes us loyal. Taking the king’s shilling paid for the army, now terrorists the world over are loyal because they get paid in dollars, or they get a share of the poppy crop or whatever.  Guns for hire in Westerns all of whom were loyal, as loyal as the last bag of gold.

We are loyal to our football club, even if we are in the Far East and Manchester United is OUR club. Football breeds loyalty, so long as we get our £250,000 a week, then the club sells us and instantly we are loyal to our new club, paying that little bit extra, and don’t we just love blue when before it was red.

We are loyal to our brothers and sisters, we shared the same upbringing, we shared the same womb. We are loyal and would do anything for our kid, even  when he steals from us to feed his drug habit, or alcoholism. We are loyal even if they aren’t, its hard to let go even if we should, a drowning man will drown the rescuer, nothing is worse than being betrayed by a sibling.  Sometimes  you do need to walk away.

Why do we need loyalty? Because then we are not alone, we share something and that’s a basis human need, just as food, water, warmth and sex are  basics of life. If we lack those then we are not complete, we are like a jigsaw with pieces missing. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find all the parts of us, to feel loved and needed and have somebody loyal to us.