Horses Don’t Save Us From Ourselves
But they might help us take the first step
The world can be divided into two types of people: those who love horses and those who do not. This post is for the first type.
You might have never touched a horse, but you stop scrolling when you see an image of one, or you slow down to get a better look when you pass one grazing in a field beside the road. You might have spent your whole life with horses and can look out your window, right now, and see one in the backyard.
If you like horses, I bet there is a part of you that feels like the idea of horse could fill a tiny hole that you sense inside of you. I bet you feel like the horse can solve some vague and troubling need, a hollowness, that you’ve noticed most of your life. You might have tried to fill that hole with human relationships or addictions.
You’re not alone. I think that all of us that are wired to love horses are programmed to look for solutions to the bumps in our inner landscape, and it feels like the horse — if you could just see one, ride one, be near one — can fix you.
There are many theories as to why horses captivate so many people’s pscyhe. We use the word nightmare to describe bad dreams. From mythology to the literal building of the modern world we inhabit, horses have been with us…
