Loyalty….Where have you gone?
We live in a disposable throw-away society. We buy things. We throw things away. It’s easy to us. Kids these days know nothing else. I drive around Austin apartments and I see like an entire apartment of furniture thrown away in the dumpster rather than move it. I see people throwing away clothes that still have the price tag on them….. And I see these things carrying over into sports and into lives.
Tiger Woods throws away a marriage and kids. Mark McGwire throws away his dignity and character by using steroids(yes, he admitted it, with excuses). Texas Tech throwing away their coach without due process(and most of his assistants thrown away too).Lane Kiffin leaves Tennessee after one year to go to USC. Is their no such thing as loyalty any more?
What makes a society lose all sense of loyalty? It’s no rocket science. It can be summed up by a famous mouth named Terrell Owens who has said ”I love me some me!” Isn’t that what it is? We love us. There’s no one we’d like to see do well more than ourselves. If you can find a happy person in this world- you have found someone that cares about others more than they care about themselves. I don’t see many good examples for young people to look up to. Do you?
And isn’t it all about money? And acquiring stuff? It’s been that way for a long time. It hasn’t always been that way. What changed it so much? When money became more important than anything else to our society as a whole- then it changed. When it became more important that a family has stuff- that mom and dad had to both work themselves to death for stuff- that was detrimental to our society. When families let others raise their kids so they could work more- that hurt. That tells kids they’re not the most important thing. That no one is loyal to them. And they grow up and all they see is selfish, unloyal people. And the cycle repeats itself with fewer and fewer loyal people until there were none……
