Jill
Aspiring Cowgirl
How have your horses made a difference in your life?
My personal experience has shown me they do change lives, and in some ways people who have never owned horses might expect. Some of the changes my horses have made in my life include:
Since getting my first horse, I've felt that horses do change lives and in some ways you'd never suspect if you had never owned a horse.
What about you? What are some of the differences having horses has made in your life? How have your horses changed you?
My personal experience has shown me they do change lives, and in some ways people who have never owned horses might expect. Some of the changes my horses have made in my life include:
- Getting a big horse and learning to really ride him in the 90's gave me personal confidence. Riding is MUCH harder than it looks, and it took me years and multiple trainers and instructors before I became confident in the saddle but once I did, it really was empowering. Being able to pilot and control a 1200 pound animal is life changing.
- Geography. Yes, it's true!!! Since getting into miniatures nearly 15 years ago, I've learned more than I did before about our Nation's geography. I know how far it is from the farm that currently owned the horse I coveted to my own farm! Horses have contributed greatly to my functional geography skills.
- What it means to be responsible for a life. Horses are the only animals I've bred. Never even a hamster before! I couldn't even talout loudud about the birth of our first born foal for months without getting choked up, and I feel a deeresponsibilityty to our horses, buespeciallyly the ones that wouldn't be here if we hadn't let them be made.
- Patience. I still could stand more of it, but you cannot rush a horse into many things you want him/her to do unless you've spent the time beforehand teaching or conditioning thhorseee to do it. Even the little ones. They're still stronger than I am.
- Not a learned item, but there have been very few tears I've shed the past decade that where not in some fashion related to horses.
- Most of my good friends were met through a mutual love of horses.
- I'm HERE. In weird, God must have been on my side, twist of "fate", it was actually losing some foals that arrived at our place very sick that lead to my own diagnosis of having had lung cancer (never smoked BTW). If nt for asking my doctor, after a year of frustration, if my "off": blood workrk could have something to do with raising horses and having some that were sick and died, I wouldn't have gotten the chest xray that lead to me being cured of something that was killing me and I didn't even know it.
Since getting my first horse, I've felt that horses do change lives and in some ways you'd never suspect if you had never owned a horse.
What about you? What are some of the differences having horses has made in your life? How have your horses changed you?
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