There's this sense of betrayal when loyalty is being tested, loyalty works with the concept of opportunity cost. This is because most times it's often difficult to share loyalty, it's either you are "more" loyal to a cause, and you're "less" loyal to another cause, simultaneously people find it difficult to sit on the fence. However, we've, so many people have come to understand the cost of loyalty, it's so expensive that when it ends in lack of appreciation or betrayal it's always difficult to look at the opportunity cost of other people.
Ventures or even situation which we have sacrificed for what we consider to be a much more viable cause. One thing I've come to understand is, people feign loyalty to more than one cause, simply because they fear the repercussions of being solely loyal and ending up rather disappointed. Disappointment is feedback to the feeling of betrayal, sometimes disappointment is what brings people to the reality that loyalty doesn't guarantee certainty.
In life, however, people who experience betrayal often begin to see blindness in their initial choices. They question their cognitive abilities to make the best decisions, they feel "less" human because they're in denial. The pain of dedicating their lives, their struggles and their energies, only for it to go unnoticed, unappreciated and totally underrated. You see, when it comes to money, betrayal and loyalty is a dichotomy.
They directly juxtapose themselves while being directly proportional. Sometimes people are blind to those who are loyal to them, because loyalty is at the bottom of their scale of preference. One of the reasons why some folks fails to recognize loyalty is their innate desires for the love of money. I have done a lot of business with a few people in the past and irrespective of the fact that their contribution is as equal as mine, the love they have for money made them blind to that effort that I also put in.
It's difficult for you to find people who would see the essence of money and weigh it in with their appreciation of the loyalty in people. For me, the height of greed is when a person begin to feel that they're the only ones capable enough of handling maximum resources, they attribute their success to their abilities, failing to see the people who played a huge role in their lives.
The act of unappreciativeness is why loyalty seems overrated and people are sometimes lost in wanting everything, they end up overrating the contributions of others to their cause. Lately, I've come to understand that appreciating loyalty is not definitive, it's often variable; depending on the people, the circumstances or the situation. This means that people choose to pay back loyalty with something appropriate, this is why it's often difficult to convince or show others the efforts of loyalty because they choose to either see it, or ignore it.
Loyalty isn't a thing to be underrated, because it is a driving force that occurs without conditional incentive. Sometimes loyalty can be bought with money, other times it cannot. However, one of the reasons why people auction their loyalty is because they've been underappreciated or made to believe that their contributions hardly matters. It's why a lot of people develop personal convictions towards something but end up doubting the essence of their loyalty in the first place.
It's very dangerous to be surrounded by fake loyalty, but then the world rewards fake loyalty because it's deceptive, catchy, and it typically tries to hide the fact that it's Just a shiny spark that comes alive with the degree of incentivization. This is to say that when loyalty becomes incentivized, it can mostly bring out the best or worst in people, but in life, the psychoanalysis of money is an education that is essential in building brands that might end up becoming industries.
It's terrible to lose loyalty simply because one is blinded by greed. The urge to own everything is why the world is displacing loyalty in exchange for * fatter pocket*. Nevertheless, money corrupts and having responsibility with money eventually brings more corruption. The world is filled with erratic people who make decisions streamlined and narrow-minded, judging every possible perception with money.
A lot of people would argue that they're not greedy, but they're compromising every sensible principle. It's terrible to know that, when people have money, it kills the need to improve other important aspects of their lives. Their friends make excuses for their toxicity because they're loyal to that money and scared of the money being used as a constructive weapon to intimidate them. At the end of the day, true loyalty is often cast away at the expense of wanting to personally own it all.
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