There cannot be a better character trait than
standing by your family and friends. Sadly, people change relationships like
they change their attire. Actually, if you can't stand by others, the deep
seated meaning of this is that somewhere, deep down, you haven't been able to
stand by yourself.
We live by the courage of our convictions, those
who don’t keep changing their convictions. And each time that this happens,
they look for a change of people around them. The unfortunate part is that when
you don't have a relationship with yourself, you tend to become rather like a
rudderless ship. Like a ship passing in the night that never docks.
Life can't be lived like this, can it? One has
to have loyalties and the strength to be with people because you have given
them love, even if they sometimes have feet of clay. Don't we all? You don't
abandon each other for being human, as long as humaneness is retained.
Opportunism is a close trait where loyalties
fail. Going the way the wind blows. Reliability on these people would be a
grave mistake. You will never know where you stand with them. There is also
loyalty among thieves as we know. I am not referring to such loyalty. I speak
of the kind of loyalty where you are of support in good times and bad times
based on good value systems, because you care. Nothing less...though, could be
more.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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