could you imagine your life without horses??

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pondering this on as i'm off this week and having been into town (uugghhh!) to sort some things out, i stopped for a coffee and a people watch as you do, the town was seething with chav life, it dawned on me that i would hate to be like them, what a boring life! most of the women tied down with screaming badly behaved kids and the blokes swigging larger at 11am in the morning. yet they think they have a fab life - to me they just exist waiting for the next time to get pissed.
i maybe skint because of the horses but i would hate not to have them, or not to have any sort of contact with an equine of some type.
 
Each to their own I guess...I know lot's of people that think I have the crap life because I have a horse. When you think about it a horse can be just as much a commitment and finacial drain as children! Most people do not envy me my 5.30am mornings 7 days a week and having to shovel sh*t with numb hands in the winter!!!
But no I could not be without my boy, he is part of the family and makes me very happy. I love my life and could not imagine being without animals full stop.
 
I did, for a long while due to a prolonged illness and during that time I couldn't even watch others riding, even on tv, as it would just remind me of what I was missing out on.
 
I had 5 years without horses when I was at uni and then travelling the world. It was good to try other things but I just felt like there was a big hole in my life. Previously I'd had 3 eventers and spent quite a lot of time thinking it was a bit of a drag (I was a lazy teenager!) but when I gave up I really appreciated what I'd lost! It made me even more determined to ride again when I got settled, and now whenever I'm broke or the horse goes c**p or I'm tired I just remind myself how rubbish it was without them. Like Smash I hated watching it on TV and had to cancel my subscription to Eventing as it was just too depressing!
 
Yes. It was fun.

Like Smash, for about 9 years I didn't have horses, I completely cut myself off from anything to do with them. In that time I did an awful lot of city living both in the UK and Europe, and it was a good life, I enjoyed it and having experienced it I think I am a far more settled person. I don't wonder what if........? I've probably done it.
 
I had an 8 year gap without horses and I hated it. Being with my horses is what keeps me completely fullfilled and so I hate it when everyone at work tells me to broaden my horizons. Hello, I have and now I'm back doing what I love the most!!
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i have ridden horses on and off for about 8 years (so if you out all my riding together I've probably ridden for about 5 years!) anyway even in the times when i wasn't riding for whatever reason, i still thought about horses and riding. i still read the magazines, went to shows with friends etc. i couldn't imagine my life without horses.

although there are times when i think 'what they hell am i doing?' especially when i' said i'd ride on Sunday morning after i'd been out on the pi**! xx
 
No ! Not now! I only got into horses as an adult about 7 years ago so up until then did not know what I was missing! I have loaned my boy full time for the last 17 months and couldn't dream of being without him! He has taught me so so much and I love him dearly, he is my best friend and can't think of anywhere I'd rather spend my evenings (even when it is -3 degrees and knee deep in snow!!) - My friends think I'm mad when I say shovelling sh*t beats watching tv in the warm anyday!
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Can't imagine going back to my old hum drum life where I would shop just for the sake of filling the hours! Now I have someone who depends on me more than even a child (as they never stop depending no matter how old they get!) and fills that void that I always felt I had!
 
What all those lay ins!! I can imagine it with delight but i no i wouldnt like it for long!
On a saturday sometimes when im soaked to the bone hacking my pony in this hideous weather we call summer, or picking poo up from the fields i often wonder what "normal" people are doing with there time.
My pony has a holiday in the winter for five-six weeks and i have as much time on my hands as i like. I love it i have to say but into the last week i am missing her and the novalty is wearing thin of lay ins and mooching around.
I can imagine my life without them but it wouldnt be a happy one for me!
 
Sorry but no way would I let horses make me be skint. No way in hell.

I really don't do poor, and if horses made me poor then I would, without question, get rid of them. I keep horses because they make me money - I train them, I produce them, I breed them, I sell them......I also have a couple that I really like however I wouldn't keep them if they kept me in negative equity. Sorry but I am a business woman.
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I was away from horses for about 12 years, for various reasons. Now I'm back, and I realised how much I had missed them. I knew that if I didn't get back into horses now, I would always wonder 'what if' and would regret it for ever.

Without horses I let myself become stuck at home, put on weight and didn't have enough exercise. Now I'm riding again, I have a great incentive to leave the house and become more active
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i say skint as tongue in cheek tia.... you really think i should get shot of my hobby because i'm not rich?? well, let me tell you this, my horses are provided for, and look well and are done well, i have seen richos leave them in a field to literally starve because they have become bored with the pony they bought on a whim, i work effin hard for my hobby and i'm not going to let someone put me down because they think i'm not rich enough to own one.
your horses being your business is fine by me, my friend runs a stud so i know how it works, but at the end of the day my guys are my hobby i have something to show for my money and i'm not pi55ing it up the wall at some nightclub. i have had horses come and go over the years but these guys are special and as long as i can pay their upkeep they will stay, if however i was in the position that i couldn't afford to care for them properly then i would let them go, i would not be selfish enough to have them go without basic care.
 
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