We live in times where
media, the internet and social media is becoming a big part of our
lives. Sometimes we live in some sort of a virtual reality instead of
real life made out of flesh and bone. This is particularly happening in the
horse world online. Unfortunately it is not an easy task to be able to
successfully get along and or ride their horse for everyone. Even tho we
wish our horse loved us as much as possible and listened ever so nicely
and did all we asked of him, often the reality is quite the opposite.
This is when our ego gets hurt and us being humans we need to find some
justification for our selves and often something or someone to blame our
problems on, rather then looking at our selves first. Now since we can
not accomplish what we hoped to with our horse in real life situation we
still have a chance to become "somebody" online in the safety of our
living room where we cant get bucked off, kicked and we don't even have
to keep our weight under control or stay fit because the lazy boy chair
doesn't get a sore back. There from the safety of our warm and dry home
we can spread our thoughts, beliefs, "expertise" and most of all
criticism to the whole wide world and become finally "somebody" known in
the horse world. This sometimes gets magnified when I can do what they
can’t with their horse. Luckily most of these people will usually
attract similarly minded friends, but I think it is important for us as a
society to learn and distinguish the difference between the real life
and a "facebook hero". As Friedrich Nietzsche, the German Philosopher
once said, “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they
don't want their illusions destroyed.”
I have lots to learn still and I
am very happy for it as it is what I love to do, esp. when it comes to
horses, but I can also trim my horses, shoe my horses, I can ride and
drive all of my horses at any speed more or less anywhere in any saddle,
bareback, bit or halter, being it in the mountains, down town roads,
highways or feed lots. I work with pleasure horses, working ranch
horses, barrel racing horses, jumping horses, race track horses,
endurance horses, mini horses, mules and donkeys on daily basis, that
means every day of my life. I've never injured or foundered a horse, yet
I help fixing them all the time. As I said before I still have much to
accomplish in my life and I find it very exciting, but I had a share of
accomplishments that I am very proud of and to be honest as much as I am
happy to have a ribbon for the fastest time or title for a horse in the
best condition what brings me the most happiness is when I can help
some real person with their horse or when I can trim their colt that has
never been done before and see the smile on their face and hear "geez,
thanks John, that's great".
So with this being said I wish
everyone many happy and safe miles on their horse, whatever saddle you
ride in or whatever rig you drive. As one wise man always says, "stay
true to your horse" and as I say always remember that "some do the talk
and some ride the walk".
Take care ya all,