25/03/2025
Den jordnære magi omkring heste ✨❤️
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Horses: Nature’s Way of Keeping You Broke, Humbled, and Weirdly Fulfilled😆
Let’s be honest.
Horses are majestic, noble creatures — until they spot a leaf and launch into full-body suspicion like it’s armed and dangerous.
They are walking contradictions:
Huge, powerful athletes... terrified of puddles and sometimes offended by shadows.
And yet… they are a gift.
A glorious, hay-burning, vet-bill-generating miracle.
Like owning a large, unpredictable life coach with hooves and no interest in your self-esteem.
Here’s why horses are a blessing:
1️⃣They don’t lie.
They don’t stroke your ego. They respond with the kind of honest uncertainty that makes you suddenly very aware of how uncoordinated and confusing you are — and how insecure that makes you feel.
2️⃣They reward learning.
Not your Instagram quote collection. Actual learning — about anatomy, behaviour, biomechanics, tack, training, nutrition, hoof angles, weather patterns, and whatever else you googled at 2am. Horses don’t necessarily care how you feel about them — but they care a lot about how you make them feel.
3️⃣They expose your inner control freak.
You can’t manipulate a horse with good vibes or people pleasing. You can try. But they’ll politely disagree by galloping sideways across a paddock and launching your emotional baggage into orbit.
4️⃣They inspire you to build fitness.
As my good friend Kate pointed out — horse riding doesn’t necessarily make you fit. It’s something you get to do because you are fit. That said, lugging buckets, fencing paddocks, chasing loose horses in slippers, and dragging hay nets surely counts as functional movement!
5️⃣They don’t care about your personal growth journey.
They care about consistency. Clarity. How you pick up the reins. And snacks. Mostly snacks. But whatever you do, don't rely on snacks!
6️⃣They scare you — regularly.
And in doing so, they make you smarter. More strategic. Less attached to your dignity. They teach you to feel fear, assess it, and make good decisions because this how things gets less scary.
7️⃣They connect you to other horse-hair-covered, hay-stuck-in-everything, passionate weirdos.
People who’ve also been flattened, humbled, and spiritually realigned by the realities of owning a horse.
8️⃣They force you to get better.
Not just at riding, but at patience, persistence, failure, and managing your mental spiral when someone offers judgemental, unsolicited advice and makes you feel like a complete failure of a horse owner.
9️⃣They teach you what relentless really means.
Because horses don’t clock off. They don’t wait for your motivation. They need feeding. Now. In the mud. While the gate falls off and you’re questioning your life choices.
And still… you love them❤.
You show up.
You try again.
You learn. You adapt. You laugh.
You cry into the flat float tyre you discovered on the morning of a show.
Because the horse — that gloriously fabulous, instinct-driven, chaos-prone masterpiece — makes you more human.
More present.
More alive.
More capable of handling the absurdity of life with grit and grace.
They’re not magic.
They’re not mystical.
They’re not your therapist.
They’re just horses.
And that’s what makes them sacred.
But here’s the catch:
If you try to skip the work — the learning, the failing, the awkwardness, the effort — and go chasing only the magic and the “connection,” you don’t end up enlightened🧘♀️.
But if you do the work — if you lean in, stay curious, take the hits and keep learning and practicing?
Well then…
You earn the magic.
IMAGE📸: Jenkin
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