Jesse had a particularly hard time maintaining a job. In fact, due to his laziness and lack of motivation, he was without a job far more often than he was in a state of employment. And when he did land a job, he had an extremely difficult time getting to work on time, he usually got less than acceptable performance assessments, and he called off sick so frequently that he regularly got fired two or three weeks after he began working. To no one’s amazement, one of the consequences of Jesse’s less than optimal work track record was the fact that he was virtually broke on a day-to-day basis.
In spite of Jesse’s awful employment record and financial misbehavior, then again, one way or another he made it a point to drink in an excessive and abusive manner on an everyday basis.
So it came as no big surprise when Jesse received a third DWI. When he went before the court, the judge told Jesse that his alcohol-related conduct was irresponsible and, consequently, he was going to sentence Jesse to spend nine months behind bars.
Time Behind Bars To Think About The Harmful Results of Irresponsible and Abusive Drinking
During his time in the city jail, Jesse was required to learn more about alcohol facts, about the destructive outcomes of irresponsible and hazardous drinking, and he was expected to get alcohol rehab. The magistrate underlined the fact that unless Jesse gets professional alcohol counseling and learns how to live a life of abstinence, he will probably be spending more than a short amount of time in the city jail.
Jesse stated that he grasped what the judge was declaring but he still proclaimed that placement in the municipal jail was not the appropriate judgment. The judge saw things from an entirely different vantage point and said that it was his obligation to keep alcohol abusers off the streets who drive and drink and who get multiple DWIs. To validate this statement, the magistrate outlined some long-standing, thoroughly researched alcohol statistics that underlined some of the injurious results that are correlated with abusive drinking.
Even though Jesse comprehended that he drank in an excessive and abusive manner, he never felt that he was alcohol dependent. So it was a rude awakening when Jesse began suffering from alcohol withdrawals approximately five-and-a-half hours after going to jail.
To treat his alcohol withdrawals in a safe manner, Jesse was life flighted to an alcohol rehab hospital for alcohol detox and then brought back to the city jail. While behind bars Jesse received alcohol rehab but due to the fact that he got this rehabilitation as something that was mandated for him, he neglected to take ownership of his abusive and hazardous drinking.
When his time in the county jail was finished, the magistrate without wavering announced to Jesse that he would be under stringent surveillance and would be required to take random urine alcohol tests.
Jessie’s Irresponsible and Abusive Drinking Stops Him From Living in a Productive and Responsible Manner
After hearing how Jesse was unsuccessful in taking ownership of his drinking problem and how he unenthusiastically followed the therapy protocol while in the local jail, the judge knew that it was basically a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about his irresponsible drinking behavior. As the magistrate thought about Jesse’s circumstance, he couldn’t help but think about how some people never ”get it” and learn how to live in a productive and adult manner.
An Old Relationship Motivates and Inspires Jesse to Completely Alter His Life
But something happened in Jesse’s life that thoroughly changed his fruitless lifestyle. One day when he was at the store buying cigarettes, he met Alice, a girl he hadn’t seen since the sixth grade. After exchanging pleasantries, Alice candidly told Jesse that due to her drug and alcohol abuse she was lucky to be alive.
When Jesse asked her what happened that changed her life in such a positive way, she told Jesse that when her cousin Emma died from alcohol poisoning, this made her see the ruinous and injurious life she had been living.
She highlighted the point that the first thing she did after her cousin’s death was to start going back to the church she attended when she was in grade school. That was fifteen years ago and with the guidance, help, and support of her preacher and other people who went to her church, she started going to Alcoholics Anonymous and she also got drug and alcohol treatment at the local drug and alcohol treatment center. Alice told Jesse that in spite of a few rough moments, she is finally on the path to long lasting recovery and feeling a sense of delight and joy for the first time since she became an adult. When Jesse said “yes” to Alice’s invitation to attend her church she was pleasantly surprised. After going to approximately four or five sermons, for the first time in his adult life, Jesse began thinking that perhaps there was hope for him and that he could at long last confront his drug and alcohol problems and start living a more healthy and rewarding life.