Loyalty

What is loyalty? To be loyal to someone or something? People have used a comparison to dogs...dogs are loyal. Hmmmm, do I want to be like a dog?....Do I want people to be like a dog towards me? So, the reason I am writing this is to get clear because I have always considered myself to be loyal and I want to be sure I know what I have always considered myself to be. In case you haven't noticed, we humans tend to expect people to be to us what we consider ourselves to be to others.....or is that just me? Kind of the reverse of the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is more like, "have others do unto you, as you do unto them." It doesn't exactly work that way. I think the key here is to know what it means to me.....standing with and for someone or something, especially when things get tough. When I say stand for, I mean stand for their highest possibility. Others may not see it the same way. I can't expect others to act a certain way towards me.