Ever felt like giving up?? Ever felt like you weren't good enough?

Lol TX1, you have made me laugh! I'm glad you are OK from your fall, my mum got bucked off the other day too. She was unseated over a 2ft upright and her horse decided he didn't like her hanging round his neck and decided to give her a helping hand to get off. She used to do BE back in the old days so we had a little chuckle about it.

I ate 6 kitkats last night! I still have a packet left though ;). Time for a break soon!
 
Aw glad you are feeling better :)

I am so scared about my new one turning up on Saturday - even though my old boy was a bit of a nutter towards the end at least he was my nutter and i knew him inside out.. its going to be a scary time :(
 
It must have been something in the air at the weekend then. I got bucked off my youngster Sunday. Still walking like John Wayne.

Firewall, all those horrible times are completely outweighed by the small things which young horses do which make you happy for days.
 
I am always considering giving up! Not because I strive for perfection...I realised a long time ago that that will never come, but because I will never be as good as I used to be as I now have a knackered body.

However, then you have a great ride, could just be a walk hack, and you realise how blessed you are that you have the opportunity to do something that you love. Believe me, I want to be out competing every weekend, I want to be hurling myself over big jumps, and my horse and I are capable, but I have no way of getting to shows and not a lot of money, so I sit and mope then I dust myself off and remember why I have horses - it is simply because I LOVE them, with a passion that runs so very deep that I will never shake it.

Sod what people think of you, as long as you love what you are doing then continue - and remember that there will always be bad days, and cold days, wet days, muddy days, snowy days....
 
Thanks guys.

Wheezy I know what you mean, sometimes just walking round a beautiful field looking at the scenery on my horse makes me so happy and I think how lucky I am to experience that.

Leg-end don't be scared! It's exciting! I know how you feel I was terrified before I got J, wondered what the hell I was doing. Im the sort of person that takes aggges to gell with a horse. A good 18 months usually before I feel totally comfortable. I loved J though the moment he walked off the lorry and his old owner handed the lead rope to me. Obviously we do have our ups and downs lol but I knew he was 'my boy' straight away. It was lovely to be able to give affection to him after loosing my Vay, he really helped me to fell better :). I'm sure your new boy will too!
 
Siennamum thanks! He does do wonderful things which make me walk around smiling for days. I need to remember those bits when I'm having a bad day. E.g at our clinic at the w/e there was a big viaduct wall chunky BS filler, the sort of thing he hasn't seen before. I was all nervous and 'clingy' and he cantered straight up to it and over. Never blinked an eye lid at anything I asked him to jump. I was so over the moon!!! It made clinging on to his caprioles at the beginning when he was excited all worth it :D
 
You have my total sympathy!! Some days I think the only reason I carry on is because no other lunatic would a) even want my horses! and b) (which is probably the main reason really) no-one else would look after them/ molly-coddle them/ generally adore them in the same way I do...

They may be totally work-shy argumentative and often unpleasant, but they are mine, and I love them for it! Think how boring it would be if they were actually perfect all the time? Where would the challenge be? (side note that I would appreciate it if my mare was a little more perfect even some of the time!!)

Problem with horses is that they do take over your life completely if you let them (which, BTW, I happily have) - I have friends who will happily go away on long holidays etc and accept that they will have to temper what they do with their four-legged friends accordingly.. sometimes I am envious of these friends, but when everything does go right it's somehow worth all the sacrifice :-)

I'm terribly lucky at the moment as I have a new foal and he is marvellous - neighs when I arrive on the yard, chases my car from the gate off the road to parking spot and will sleep for hours with his head on my lap - know that I am potentially not doing the best for him by allowing him to be so friendly, but totally love the fact that he clearly thinks I am the most fantastic thing in the world (and the most exciting!) Let's face it, there's not many people that can make you feel like that!

Suspect you are a bit flat as winter is coming, and we all, deep down, know that the long cold nights of drudging about completely freezing and up to our armpits in mud are about to start, but on the positive side, it's only a few more months until the start of a whole new event season (in which my horses have the opportunity to disappoint at least twice a month!) and only a few weeks until Christmas, which will give us all the opportunity to dress our horses like reindeer (secretly while we think no-one is watching!)

Chin up - it's a bad day only - someone told me a really good saying recently - yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery but today is a gift and that's why it's called the present.....
 
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