THE PRICE OF LOYALTY

MOST PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE TRUE MEANING BEHIND THIS SEVEN LETTER WORD. FOR OTHERS, THE PRICE OF LOYALTY IS PRICELESS. LOYALTY IS WHEN YOU KNOW YOU CAN COUNT ON A PERSON AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THEM THROWING THINGS BACK IN YOUR FACE. LOYALTY IS BEING ABLE TO SLEEP COMFORTABLY IN YOUR TOUR BUS. LOYALTY HAS COSTED MANY PEOPLE THEIR FREEDOM, INCLUDING ME. PRODIGY OF MOBB DEEP HAS TO SPEND THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON BECAUSE HE'S LOYAL. AUTHORITIES WANTED HIM TO SET 50 CENT UP AND SUSPEND HIM IN TIME BUT HE OBLIGED THEIR OFFER. LOYALTY IS NOT ABOUT WHO BUSTS THEIR GUNS THE MOST. THAT'S WHAT COSTED SHYNE EIGHT YEARS OF HIS LIFE BEHIND BARS. NOR IS IT ABOUT HOW MUCH FIGHTS YOU WON. PEOPLE OFTEN MISCONTRUE THIS CONCEPT WHICH IS WHY THE WORLD IS IN SUCH DISARRAY NOW. LOYALTY IS TREATING OTHERS THE SAME WAY YOU'D WANT TO BE TREATED. LOYALTY IS BEING THERE FOR A FRIEND IN THEIR TIME OF NEED. LOYALTY IS ABOUT PULLING THE YOUNG UP AND TEACHING THEM RIGHT FROM WRONG SO THEY WON'T MAKE THE VERY SAME MISTAKES WE MADE GROWING UP. LOYALTY IS YOUR FAITH IN GOD. PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY BECAUSE OF THEIR LOYALTY TO THEIR RELIGION OR THEIR PASTOR. LOYALTY IS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY. THERE WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE WHERE I THOUGHT I HAD LOYAL FRIENDS. I THOUGHT THESE DUDES WOULD BE WITH ME TIL THE END OF TIME BUT THAT FANTASY IS SHORT LIVED. EVERYONE ISNT CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH AND YOU CAN'T MAKE PEOPLE BE LOYAL. ITS AN INNATE CHARACTERISTIC THEY MUST HAVE THEMSELVES. I LEARNED THAT LESSON MANY YEARS AGO. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THE PRICE OF LOYALTY IS PRICELESS.