Loyalty in Friendship

The best gift any person could possibly receive is the gift of true friendship. There's nothing more exciting and pleasant as knowing that there's someone out there who cares about you and your happiness, who you can be yourself with and have the time of your life. But, However, many things are needed to make friendship a real one. These include trustworthiness, support, honesty, and loyalty.

And although I've listed quite a few characteristics required for a true friendship, the one I would like to focus on most, which I believe binds many of the characteristics together, is loyalty.
loyalty can be defined as faithfulness to commitments or obligations.

Growing up we are all true to someone, our friend. We don't care or ever think about if they are really true to us, we just young people they can count on an we can also count on them and trust them with the things we tell them or they tell us, we share stupid thoughts with them and laugh at all type of things, we would tell them about our fears, dreams, awkward moments, our likes, dislikes, our crushes, our enemies. We will tell them so many things not worrying whether they would go and expose the things we tell them to others.


Loyalty is one of the most important thing in life when it comes to friendship, because trust can be broken by small things and you need to know that you can count on your friends to always have your back and never let you down.

Nowadays, its become so common for friends to gossip behind each other's back. They start exposing your secrets that you shared with them.

Imagine if everything you ever shared with your friend got exposed?..
Once you share things with a friend, that friend of yours already knows your weakness, and if you can ever get into a fight he would know how to destroy you or you would know how to destroy them.
We see it happening so many times in High School where best girlfriends get into cat fights and cliques form, or when best guys friends get into a serious wrestling match due to disloyalty.

Imagine if your biggest secret was exposed.. That secret which only your best friend knew.. How would you feel?.. Knowing that everyone's looking and pointing fingers, and most importantly, knowing that you've been betrayed.. Betrayed by the person you trusted most.. The person who you thought was most loyal to you??..

So loyalty is a very important thing to a friend, and it can take you a long way and once its broken it can never be repaired cause that person will never trust you again. With loyalty, other characteristics of friendship come naturally, eg: trust, honesty, love, support, and respect.
Its easy to make friends and be friends with someone, but the important part is showing them that you will always be there to support them and you'll never hurt them or stab them in the back no matter what the circumstances may be.

Some people assume that if you are not friends with a person anymore, then you have the right to share they private life and their secrets with the world.. How can anyone ever trust you if you can so easily betray that person you once called your friend?
If you can't be loyal to someone, why be they friend?..


RAFIQ KAZEMBE