Feeling Free

So I suppose you all want to know what the point of this blog is for me. The thing is that I'm young but I've had the chance to do so many things and to have some many different experiences. I want to live each day of my life without missing a single moment of it. Without going through the motions or going through life with my eyes closed. In order to do that I decided for the rest of the year I'm going to make a conscious effort to find something that inspires me that day. It can be some huge deep thought thing, or it could be something that makes me upset and want to do something, it could even be something that just interested me that day and I felt like blogging about it.


So for today, my inspiration for today was a thousand pound animal between my legs.

Wow that sounded terrible. Bad Beka, bad. But seriously, it's was my horse riding lesson. I take lessons in the town over from my college and I am on the equestrian team at my school. It's all English, for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about I'm sorry and just attempt to follow along. So I take a forty-five minute lesson once a week and that is the thing I look forward to every week, because it's one of the things I enjoy most.

No I don't own any horses, I wish I did though. I live in a suburb area so it's not possible for me to own my horse. I didn't ride before this September, and it's amazing the progress I have made so far. This is something I plan to do for my college career and hopefully longer. I don't care much for showing the horse my favorite thing is riding and just the feeling it gives me . 

So in today's lesson I finally got to canter off the lunge line which just felt amazing. Cantering is the third gait of the horse meaning it uses three legs at a time ((wow I described that horribly)) It looks like this video. The girl started out with a trot then went into a canter, I have no idea what she's saying because I had my sound on mute I just wanted a visual.

Not only did I feel like I achieved something when I was able to do canter the horse without it being on the lunge line and have control was just elevating. Also the feeling when you ride is just indescribable, but I'm going to do my best to describe it. It's like being free. Everything that's going on your life just slips away all that matters is you and the horse. Not only that but both of you are working in sync. It's liberating, and amazing, and smooth, and wonderful and I love it. Not only did I get to canter but I got to do a little bit of jumping over really low posts. I didn't expect to be jumping at least till I was riding for a year but here I am not even six months later learning to jump. And when the horse jumps jumps at the right speed, the right time, and you're in the right posture, and you're body is in sync with the horse it feels like you're flying.

So the question is that how does this inspire me? Well obviously that feeling of freedom is a huge inspiration in my life. I also love the fact that no matter how my day is going, or what is going on in my life I have this time where I just slip away and all that matters is that moment, and what I'm doing in that moment. It's a reality check, every time I leave the barn I think about that feeling of liberation and the way that whatever was bothering me isn't bothering me anymore. Sometimes it's nice to have a break from life

Horseback riding is my drug, ((Which is actually proven in a scientific study but that's a topic for a different day)) It's the best day of my week, and I can't wait for my next lesson to improve more.