Loyal to Your Values
| Category: | Loyal |
|---|---|
| Notes: | True loyalty means staying true to your principles, even when it costs you socially. |
Your friends want you to do something that violates the Scout Law. Maybe it's not a huge thing - just a small lie, or excluding someone, or bending a rule. And they're making it clear: if you don't go along, you're not really part of the group.
This is where you learn what you're really loyal to. Are you more loyal to temporary popularity, or to the values you promised to uphold? It's easy to say you believe in the Scout Oath and Law when no one is testing you. The real test comes when staying loyal to your values costs you something.
A Scout is loyal to the principles we've committed to live by. That loyalty doesn't waver based on who's watching or what others think. When you stay true to your values even when it's socially costly, you discover something powerful: people respect that kind of loyalty, even if they don't admit it. And you respect yourself.