A Young Man’s Excessive Drinking Leads To a DWI, Time Locked Up In Jail, and Then Motivation and Self Esteem to Change His Destructive and Harmful Lifestyle

Jesse had an extremely difficult time maintaining a job. Indeed, due to his lassitude and lack of drive, he was out of a job far more frequently than he was in work. And when he did get a job, he had a very hard time getting to work when his shift began, he often got less than optimal performance assessments, and he called off sick so many times that he commonly got fired two or three weeks after he began working. To no one’s surprise, one of the effects of Jesse’s less than stellar employment record was the fact that he was just about flat broke almost on an everyday basis.

Regardless of Jesse’s poor employment record and financial misconduct, then again, one way or another he managed to drink in a hazardous manner almost everyday.

So it came as no big surprise when Jesse got a fourth DWI. When he went before the court, the magistrate clearly stated to Jesse that his alcohol-related actions was appalling and, as a result, he was going to sentence Jesse to spend twelve months incarcerated in jail.

Time In Jail To Think About The Demoralizing Outcomes of Abusive and Excessive Drinking

During his time in jail, Jesse was required to learn more about alcohol facts, about the injurious consequences of excessive drinking, and he was expected to get alcohol treatment. The magistrate accentuated the fact that unless Jesse gets professional alcohol therapy and discovers how to live a life of sobriety, he will most likely be spending a lot more time in the local jail.

Jesse stated that he grasped what the magistrate was pronouncing but he still stated that jail was not the best judgment. The judge saw things from an entirely different orientation and claimed that it was his responsibility to keep individuals off the streets who drive and drink and who receive multiple DWIs. To substantiate this statement, the magistrate listed some revered, comprehensively researched alcohol statistics that underscored some of the devastating outcomes that are related to excessive and abusive drinking.

Even though Jesse knew that he drank excessively, he never felt that he was an individual who was addicted to alcohol. So it was a real bombshell when Jesse began having alcohol withdrawal symptoms roughly three-and-a-half hours after getting locked up in the municipal jail.

To deal with his alcohol withdrawal symptoms in a safe manner, Jesse was transferred to a drug and alcohol treatment center for alcohol detox and then brought back to the local jail. While locked up in the local jail Jesse got alcohol rehab but since he received this counseling as something that was forced upon him, he neglected to take ownership of his irresponsible drinking.

When his time in the city jail was over, the magistrate without indecision announced to Jesse that he would be under strict scrutiny and would be required to take periodic random breath alcohol tests.

Jessie’s Irresponsible and Excessive Drinking Prevents Him From Living in a Productive and Accountable Manner

After hearing how Jesse did not take ownership of his drinking circumstances and how he unenthusiastically followed the treatment regimen while in the county jail, the magistrate knew that it was only a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about his careless drinking behavior. As the judge reflected on Jesse’s situation, he couldn’t help but think about how some people never “connect the dots” and learn how to live in a responsible and productive manner.

An Old Relationship Augments Jesse’s Self Esteem and Motivates and Inspires Him to Significantly Alter His Life

But something happened in Jesse’s life that completely changed his unproductive lifestyle. One day when he was at the local beverage store buying chewing tobacco, he met Alice, a girl he hadn’t seen since the eighth grade. After some small talk, Alice openly told Jesse that due to her drug and alcohol abuse she was fortunate to be alive.

When Jesse asked her what happened that changed her life so totally, she told Jesse that when her cousin Claudia died from alcohol poisoning, this forced her to see the unhealthy and ruinous life she had been living.

She stressed the point that the first thing she did after her cousin’s funeral service was to begin going back to her family church. That was eight years ago and with the guidance, help, and support of her pastor and other people who attended her parish, she started going to Alcoholics Anonymous and she also got alcohol and drug counseling at the local drug and alcohol treatment center. Alice told Jesse that despite a handful of rough moments, she is finally on the road to long lasting sobriety and feeling a sense of delight and joy for the first time in her adult life. When Jesse said “yes” to Alice’s invitation to attend her church she was pleasantly surprised. After going to about three or four church services, for the first time in his adult life, Jesse felt a strengthened sense of self esteem and began thinking that perhaps there was hope for him and that he could finally address his drug and alcohol issues and begin living a more healthy and beneficial life.

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