Loyalty is cheap to claim and expensive to prove. That’s how you know whose is real.

Saying you would do anything for someone takes a second and costs nothing, which is why the words are everywhere. The proof arrives at inconvenient times: the ride at midnight, the unpopular side of an argument, the hour you were going to spend on yourself. Most people mean it and then find they meant something smaller when it was time to pay.

Think of one person whose loyalty to you has actually been tested, and tell them you noticed. Then look at where yours has been claimed and not yet spent, and spend a little this week on something inconvenient.