Perfection

I once heard of this story of this girl who destroyed herself striving for perfection. She drove herself insane trying to become everyone's idol, everyone's role model. I once thought the story was unrealistic. Who tries to kill themselves just for the sake of being perfect at whatever you love. I ride horses a lot, I ride horses competitively, I ride horses to be free. But within it all, I realize that I can never be who I really want to be, the natural, all-around horse rider. In some ways I do have natural talents in the equine sport. Lots of people have complimented on my "Good seat," in riding. How I treat my horses is always something I want to improve on. When you're angry, you can't express your anger to your horses without being abusive. When you're sad, your horses are your only comfort, because they can listen and not judge. They can comfort and not have to say anything.
Horses change everyone's lives. They save people, they inspire people to write books and cast roles for movies. They are always one step ahead of us somehow, whether or not we are unique enough to notice it.
They do not strive for perfection, they do not strive to kill themselves to perfect their canter leads. They live in the moment, and people should start to learn from the creatures they call "dumb".
I gotta say, people don't actually look when they see horses. They see something that can transport them, that they can perfect to win the ribbons and the titles. I'm guilty of being drowned in want of being famous, rich and well-known due to success in a riding career. But I've had to look back at how this has affected my life. Am I willing to savage my social life to make it to the top? Am I willing to step over everyone I know to make it? No... I don't think so. I still haven't actually looked at how stepping over people will affect me, yet. I do try to step over some who claim to be better but are inexperienced because let's face it, you don't want to be held back by someone who is all talk and no walk. 
But that has gotten me in trouble too. I still have to learn, and even though I'm one step away from showing everyone that attitude is not something to be shunned upon, but is something to be looked up at, because more and more kids are being told not to have attitude, or flaws, but to be perfect.
So you see, one simple horse ties all of this together, and makes people learn valuable lessons. 
Over and out,
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Love K