I've never had the luxury of riding a horse or going to a barn frequently and I'm not sure if I ever will. Anyone wanna describe how it feels to work with horses and ride them? I can't imagine the experience right now but I want to lol

For me it's like going to a second home where I can be myself with no worries where I can always count on being able to smile when I see their faces pop over the rails or hear their nickers when they see me coming <3 When I'm riding it's the feeling of freedom with the power of a 1000+ lb animal underneath you that you learn how to communicate with without words :)

It's like a familiar pair of jeans and boots (or the English equivalent). The crunch of gravel as you pull up to the barn, and squint into the distance toward the pasture to see if any of the horses are visible. The smell of leather and dust as you walk into the barn and grab your equipment. Watching where you step to avoid mud and fresh manure as you go to catch your horse. Feeling his silky smooth coat if it's summer, or his fuzzy coat if it's winter. Getting swatted by his tail while you're trying to brush him off. My horse would lick my hands like a dog. Getting mud all over your hands on some days as you try to pick out his feet, because his hooves are covered in the mud he walked through. I always did my horse's hooves in the same order, so he would know which one I was going to next and lift it before I even got there. Their noses are soft, and the bases of their ears are soft. I'd stroke my horse's ears as much as he'd stand still for. Sometimes when I got to the barn, he'd still by laying down and I'd go over and sit on him. Getting your toes stepped on.

A constant migraine LOL

Imagine being excited to be broke

To get an experience of what it’s like to own a horse, you can go into a paddock and start lighting $100 notes on fire, and laugh maniacally while you’re doing it!

Cloudy said:
To get an experience of what itÂ’s like to own a horse, you can go into a paddock and start lighting $100 notes on fire, and laugh maniacally while youÂ’re doing it!

ItÂ’s early mornings and dark evenings; itÂ’s being outside in hail, wind, rain and snow; itÂ’s your horse destroying her stable because you were five minutes late with dinner; itÂ’s carting wet rugs around when your horse has discovered how to take them off; itÂ’s being excited because you paid $50 to enter a show and won a $2 ribbon; itÂ’s cracked skin, lips and nails, man hands, mysterious bruises, broken bones and helmet hair.

But itÂ’s also the freedom of being lent wings; itÂ’s the warm breath on your face and listening to them chew hay peacefully at night; itÂ’s being greeted with a whinny in the paddock; itÂ’s learning a silent language and how to be patient; itÂ’s meeting amazing people and friends for life; itÂ’s that sense of accomplishment and pride when you achieve something youÂ’ve been trying to for months or years; itÂ’s a lifestyle, not just a hobby, and IÂ’m both lucky and unlucky enough that itÂ’s also my career.

If you can at any stage, get involved and get some lessons, you (hopefully!) wonÂ’t regret it ;)

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having the feeling that you can communicate and have a friendship with a animal who could kill you, but choses not to. the feeling of riding simply just feels like you are flying

It's really awesome and life-changing. Before I started riding lessons it was something I could only dream about but then my sister and I started lessons and it really changed my life.

Thank you all for helping me out <3 I've loved horses for 11 years now and I've only been around them once or twice in my life. To be honest, when I'm not around horses, I constantly feel like a part of me is missing. Like I'm supposed to be with them. That probably sounds weird xD