Set aside your training, your engrained, reactionary, "within seconds respond and make a decision" mentality. Look through all of that to your inner core. Allow your recollections of words shared as you pass by in a hallway, at home or at work float back to the forefront. Remember words and inflection exchanged as you sit car-to-car, or as you sit on a perimeter for hours on end. Let those words speak to you again.
Recall the volumes of shared statements spoken only through a glance — let them speak to you again. Hear that bold statement of visual communication as it sinks in. Put down the ramming shield, your protective armor just far enough to let the unjaded, child-like levels of awareness be heard. For these are the moments we are truest to ourselves, truest to our souls. As you read, give this gift to yourself. It is something no one can take from you. It is okay to say, "Oh, my God, that's me." No one will hear that as you read silently, to yourself.
The only true badge of courage that any of us can wear is one that is legitimized once the truth is acknowledged — our truth is acknowledged — as fact, as reality. This is the single, untarnished shield that exists. Wear this badge of courage proudly.
To have acknowledged and embraced the truth brings inner peace, acceptance, forgiveness, and the ability to forge ahead, to mark change. In turn, you honor your oath of service to your community, to your profession, to your badge, and most importantly, to yourself.
Commander Krista Osborne, Ph. D. (Ret.)
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