LOVE AND LOYALTY

 

LOVE AND LOYALTY

Love is affection, fondness, care, concern, attachment, regard, warmth, intimacy, devotion, adoration, passion, ardour, yearning , adulation, etc.  

It is not only individuals who are loved but also groups, societies, faiths, associations, coteries, factions, committees, clubs and circles.

The most important quality which is expected in a lover is loyalty, stability, faithfulness, trustworthiness, reliability, devotion, constancy and steadfastness.

Opportunists and turn-coats cannot be regarded as dependable lovers. They are rolling stones. Their love is unstable. It is therefore a vice, not a virtue.

Is it shocking to see lovers or members of a social or political group change their allegiance and attachment citing lame excuses.  

True love demands life-long loyalty. Disloyalty in this affair is a condemnable fraud.

Look at the following sonnet by the English poet-playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments; love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove,

O no, it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand’ring bark

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.

Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom:

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man loved.

 

            To cocclude, this  short quote : Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

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G.R.Kanwal

8^th January 2025