Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Perseverance and Emotional Sobriety
Being sober in the military requires perseverance. Some days I don’t have sobriety; I’m just dry. I’m pissed off, I am hot. It’s 130 degrees, I’m wearing seventy pounds of battle rattle, and it feels like my brain is melting under this Kevlar.
I can’t say in those moments that I’m feeling happy, joyous, and free. But what I do have is perseverance. The thing is, I know this is going to end. I know that I’m going to be able to get done with this tour; I know that I’m going to be able to get back to Minnesota where I’m going to freeze my ass off and have the polar opposite of 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Today I will remember perseverance, which can carry us through when we don’t have that emotional sobriety.
— J. D., U.S. Army, 1985–1993/1998–2018
Hazelden Foundation
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