Sometimes it pays to read the comments

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A few days ago, a Gab post about--let's just go ahead and say it: pooping outdoors--started making the rounds at WRSA. Of course, anyone who has ever been in middle school can be excused for getting a slight case of the giggles when a conversation turns toward the scatological. Indeed several of the comments on the post were somewhat adolescent in nature. However, the subject of the post was serious, and a good number of comments were actually helpful.

One particular set of comments stood out to me. It came after several anecdotes about soldiers and their experiences answering nature's call while in nature. I think these comments aren't just about soldiers: they apply to us all...

@PatriotReactor

Tell me; is the average soldier really as tough as the commercials make them out to be?

@Miradus

@PatriotReactor No idea. Everyone whines, cries, and complains sometimes about something. Everyone is situationally tough.

Can you be tough for a week when you're with your buddies? Most people can. But can you still be tough when it's your family suffering hardship?

Try 40 years of tough. Doing hard, humiliating labor. Getting by with no praise or reward from society while you toil in a dead-end, soul-crushing job. Plenty of people get up every morning and repeat the same day for 40 years. Just so they don't die. Or their kids or their wife don't die.

Tough is just doing what you got to do to get through.

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