Definition Essay On Loyalty
Loyalty Around this time last year I was a high school senior living in Houston, Texas. Now I’m a college freshmen 13 hours away from Houston living in Fremont, Nebraska. A lot can happen in a one year span. This leads me to explain why I believe loyalty is key value in life! My experiences with loyalty is different from anyone else's, meaning my definition of loyalty to is different to. My definition of loyalty is sticking to a commitment made to a person or place.
Growing up my family had always set certain values, and held me up to a standard. One of the values taught was loyalty. As of right now I am going through a test of loyalty. My current situation is I started a commitment here by coming to Midland University, yet after only one year of commitment I’m breaking it. Once I broke the news to my family that I am deciding to come back home I received a mixed reaction. Starting with my father, he was upset and completely against it. Explaining how this would go against everything my family believes in, referring to the phrase “You start something, you finish it”. Deciding to go back home may be against my family values in my father's opinion, but not to my mother. My mother explained it’s fine if I was to come back home, and that I actually wouldn’t be breaking family values if I …show more content…
Especially being in a long term relationship for about half of that year! The struggle of being thirteen hours away, and only seeing each other during breaks or summer. Loyalty is important in many different factors in life, if my parents hadn’t teached me loyalty I doubt I’d be in a relationship right now. To form a healthy relationship you have to start with loyalty, especially being in long term relationship (I’m in college so yes 1 year relationship is long). Having a girlfriend is a great test of
Growing up my family had always set certain values, and held me up to a standard. One of the values taught was loyalty. As of right now I am going through a test of loyalty. My current situation is I started a commitment here by coming to Midland University, yet after only one year of commitment I’m breaking it. Once I broke the news to my family that I am deciding to come back home I received a mixed reaction. Starting with my father, he was upset and completely against it. Explaining how this would go against everything my family believes in, referring to the phrase “You start something, you finish it”. Deciding to go back home may be against my family values in my father's opinion, but not to my mother. My mother explained it’s fine if I was to come back home, and that I actually wouldn’t be breaking family values if I …show more content…
Especially being in a long term relationship for about half of that year! The struggle of being thirteen hours away, and only seeing each other during breaks or summer. Loyalty is important in many different factors in life, if my parents hadn’t teached me loyalty I doubt I’d be in a relationship right now. To form a healthy relationship you have to start with loyalty, especially being in long term relationship (I’m in college so yes 1 year relationship is long). Having a girlfriend is a great test of