Consequences

On every shift I end up seeing people who've made horrible decisions in life and they go on making them even when things go wrong. The problem is that they don't think of how their actions impact their children. I see children being torn from families, from one parent to another and it's heart wrenching. To a child, a family is what they look at for comfort and safety and when this very source of comfort becomes a source for anguish, you can actually see their dreams shatter in their eyes.

Misdirected hate

"Remember, they only hate you for the uniform not for who you are!" That's what I was told way back in the beginning but at times when you face such hate and such violence, you forget that it's directed at the uniform and not you. It's hard not to let these things affect you. Yet we go on, day after day, out there protecting you from the monsters you wish you never face