Back in the saddle…
Since my accident, I have ridden horses..
🕑 Added 2023-07-27 20:02:01 +0000 UTC
Back in the saddle…
Since my accident, I have ridden horses maybe 4 times… in the span of 10 years.
Prior to my accident I had been riding pretty consistently for 19 years.
Horseback riding was my whole life. It has been the hardest thing to accept losing since losing my leg.
Yes, obviously I can still sit on top of a horse walking lol but I was a fairly decent rider in several styles of riding, and enjoyed caring for and training horses. I enjoyed being on the back of an animal racing as fast as it could possibly go, while my body moved in rhythm with it. There’s a synchrony that happens that’s just magical.
My intention is to get a side saddle at some point in my life, and see if I can make riding more comfortable that way. That’s a long term goal anyway. While it’s not the same as what it used to be, I’m grateful to have friends with horses so I can ride every now and then, and I have some horses to borrow for when I do finally get a side saddle.
I get asked a lot if it was hard to accept my life this way, and yes, it was. I was very angry for a long time. And I’m still not happy about my horseback riding experience being changed so much. But I will say that I have been able to come to a point of acceptance about horseback riding to where it no longer burns inside me that I’m missing this from my life. It’s still hard sometimes. But I’m okay now. And I do want to say that if you’ve lost something really important to you, you can find happiness again… but you have to go create it. It can be hard. You might be angry. But you can do it. ♥️
