DISLOYALTY

I’m a confirmed disloyal individual, I think. You might be as well. Far back as I can remember I’ve been giving people reasons to not like me. I’ve often thought that people can like the you they make you out to be but the minute you disappoint??? Now you’re the brotha they love to hate, as Ice Cube once coined it.

So it stands to reason that you need only to fail to fulfill expectations to become “that guy.” People are loyal to ideas (usually their own), money (usually due to an obsession with comfort) and idols (usually the thing they’ve come to value/worship the most). Consequently, if you’re going to be adored in this world, you’d better align your activity with one of the previously mentioned big three. Ideas, money and idols get projected via a pretty blatant exchange. We transact  loyalty for loyalty all the time.

But me? I learned a long time ago that if you’re not loyal to those big three people think you either don’t live in the real world or that you are selfish. I’ve been labeled everything from selfish to crazy to ungodly. But I, like you, have determined that loyalty belongs in one place – unchanging principles. It’s an easy saying up front but hard on the back end. Because it means if your brother robs a bank, you admit he deserves prison even if his motives were noble. It means that when your daughter is being menaced “by dem mean gurls at skool” you don’t march down and start swingin’ fists at little kids. The truth is that the world works on this grand scheme of loyalty networking. But if you’re brave enough, character driven enough and can handle losing the approval of many, you’ll actually only be disloyal to evil. And that can’t be so bad can it?