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Sometimes loyalty is not a word.\nSometimes it is a silence that gets stuck in the throat.
\nIt is a reproach that sometimes brings tears to your eyes at the mention of his name, but you cannot say it out loud.<\/p>\n
Sometimes loyalty is not a word.
\nSometimes it is a silence that gets stuck in the throat.
\nIt is a reproach that sometimes brings tears to your eyes at the mention of his name, but you cannot say it out loud.<\/p>\n
It is difficult to talk about loyalty today. Because loyalty lives most in the tongues of the hurt. And most of all in the hearts of the forgotten...<\/p>\n
We all have a \u201cwe set out together\u201d sentence in our lives. People we say we sat at the same table, dreamed the same dream, paid the same price... But as time passes, the tables get bigger, the seats multiply, the power expands. At that point, loyalty becomes a burden. It turns into a past we don't want to remember, a labor we want to ignore.<\/p>\n
But loyalty begins with remembering.
\nBy remembering who you walked with, where you came from, what pain you went through to reach today...<\/p>\n
In this country, the sense of loyalty has been kneaded mostly in pain. In dungeons, at gravesides, in courtrooms... It has remained hidden in a mother's lament that does not subside even after years, in a father's silent gaze at the ground, in a brother's unfinished sentence. In this land, we learned loyalty from those we lost.<\/p>\n
Today we are asked to forget.
\nThe past says \u201cdon't tamper too much\u201d.
\nThey want to \u201cput the pain behind us\u201d.
\nBut no one asks: What about those who are left behind?<\/p>\n
Loyalty starts right here.
\nIn taking care of those who are left behind.
\nRemembering the names of those whose path was left unfinished...
\nIn winning, we must not forget the losers...<\/p>\n
In politics, loyalty is the most quickly abandoned virtue. Because loyalty disturbs comfort. It complicates calculations. It gets in the way of those who say \u201cwe need to get on with our work\u201d. That is why loyalty is often belittled as \u201csentimentality\u201d. But the real callousness is to deny that you are walking together.<\/p>\n
The media is no different.
\nThose who once called for \u201cfreedom\u201d taking refuge in silence today, those who once called for \u201ctruth\u201d turning a blind eye today... These are all different faces of disloyalty. Because journalism also requires loyalty. Loyalty to the reader, to the truth, to the honor of the profession...<\/p>\n
Loyalty is sometimes a phone call.
\nSometimes it's to mention your name.
\nSometimes it means \u201cyou are not alone\u201d.
\nAnd sometimes, when everyone else is silent, to keep remembering.<\/p>\n
Let's face it:
\nBeing loyal makes you tired. It leaves you alone. It takes its toll. But it does not silence your conscience when you put your head on the pillow at night. Because loyalty is a debt one owes to oneself.<\/p>\n
That is why loyalty is still precious.
\nIt is still resistance.
\nIt is still morality.<\/p>\n
At a time when forgetting is so encouraged, remembering is an objection.
\nIt is a stance to turn and look where everyone else turns away.<\/p>\n
And we, despite all our fatigue, will not stop saying this:
\nMan shrinks the day he loses his loyalty.
\nSociety rots the day it loses its loyalty.<\/p>\n
Loyalty is not a virtue of the past, but the last reminder of how to remain human today.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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