05/28/2025
You often hear people say “enjoy the ride."
But if you’ve ever spent time caring for a horse, you know there’s so much more than the hour spent in the saddle.
The saying should probably closer to “enjoy long hours and hard work” or maybe “enjoy the highest highs and the lowest lows."
Sometimes you’ll feel more akin to a spiteful “enjoy heartbreak, the unpredictable, and sheer bad luck."
But if you were to say those things you would also have to say “enjoy freedom, connection, and a love impossible to explain."
So here are my alternatives …
Enjoy the privilege of getting to ride as much as the ride - the ability to swing into the saddle as much as the ability to sit it.
Enjoy the soul that enjoys you back - the simple pleasure of connection without bargain, barter, or expectation.
Enjoy the quiet. The care. The mundane as much as the extraordinary.
Be joyful in your enjoyment because joy is such a rare but free commodity.
Yes, enjoy the ride, but remember to enjoy everything that led up to it as well as the responsibility that accompanies it.
Because very rarely is it about the ride. 🤍
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Jessie and "Sir" in a quiet moment at Jessie Paine Dressage in Conestoga, PA
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