Nov 01, 2005 18:26
I wasn't going to put this on here but i just really just feel like i need to. I hope you like it.
I had my lesson this past Sunday and it was the first time that i got to go out into the field with Easy. I can't even begin to explain how perfect it made me feel. I don't think that i've ever felt that alive in my life. The day was so beautiful and the air just flew right through me and blew away all of the pain and bad things that i have been feeling. We basically went on a trail ride and walked, trotted, and loped through the most beautiful woods and big open fields of green grass and flowers for as far as you could see. When i was riding i couldn't even believe the feelings that i was feeling. It felt like happiness again. I don't think that i've really felt a total carefree happy feeling in so long that i almost have forgotten what it feels like. I knew that the lesson had to end before too long but what i got out of that hour and a half will stay will me for a long time. Out there in the fresh air i just felt like this was what i needed to do from now on. I need to get out and away from all of the things that bring me down and stress me out. I need to get out where it doesn't matter what i wear or my hair looks like. A place with no telephones and no one going to walk in and interupt what i'm doing. I just needed some quiet time. Time when the only noises that i heard was the sound of Easy's hooves running on the ground underneath me and the sound of the creek in the background. The sounds when the horses would neigh and when they would splash in the water. The sound that their hooves made when the walked over rocks and the sound of the saddle moving under me. The first time that Easy picked up a lope, i felt everything that i had been holding, just fall away and was left behind. Normally at home i would probably be scared because he was going pretty fast, but this time i didn't feel afraid. I had a field bigger than i have ever seen to run in and i sat in the saddle and everything just felt like it was supposed to. I just let Easy run a little. I let him just be a horse. And he let me just be alive. Its so weird how things like that work, But for now, no matter what happens, i will always keep this memory in my heart, and no one can take that away from me. I will always remember how it felt to fly that day.