It is not writer's block...
Lately I've been struggling with something that, I now realise, wrongfully have mislabelled as writer's block. Now I realise it isn't, cause what I am really struggling with is an identity crisis.
As long as I can remember I have identified myself as a horse person. I can see this will be confusing for any eventual Zoomers out there reading this but I really don't care.
Anyhow, like I said I have always identified myself as a horse person. A person who loves horses, equestrian sport and anything and everything around it.
As a kid me and my friends "played horse". I spent all my free time in a stable, and or with horses. If there was a horse in the nearby area (read 10km or so) I would find it.
Everything was about horses!!!
Today it still is but not at all with same enthusiasm as in my younger years.
But what I lately have thought of as being writer's block is not at all writer's block. It is an identity crisis!
Good ol' Katie Prudent identified it years back in that bombshell pod episode I tend to refer to over and over again.
Cause the identity crisis I'm experiencing has everything to do with what the modern world of equestrian sport have turned into.
A full blown circus for the "rich and famous" if you'd like. A circus for the less educated, at least when it comes down to horses and equestrian sport. These days everybody seem to believe they are a pro after spending some "ten minutes" in the sport.
The wrong doings are normally what keeps this site alive and is normally what I write about. But I feel I've got to a point where it is all too much to take in and to even try to process.
All this talk about animal welfare means nothing if our governing bodies [the federations] don't practise what they preach!
The past week we had horror weather in my part of Europe. By horror weather I am talking about temperatures reaching closer to +40°C. Still the international shows goes on just like normal.
Ahead of the Olympic games in Atlanta 1996 and the WEG in Tryon 2018 less temperatures than these were reasons for concern.
These days no one seems to care.
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Buy Me a CoffeeOn video after video [different riders, different videos] we see riders whipping and torturing horses. The riders that "get caught" normally gets a suspension that lasts a couple of months, and then everything goes back to normal again.
Interestingly enough, men [cause mostly they are men] that have filthed up young girls and or boys seem to get a bigger punishment than people torturing horses. An absolute perfect example of this is showjumping and trainer legend George Morris. In 2019 he was given a life time ban from equestrian sport for two cases of sexual misconduct that happened back in 1968 and 1972.
Imagine that, Morris got a life time ban for something that happened 51 and 47 years ago. Charlotte Dujardin got 12 months for whipping a horse.
Things like these are the very same things that makes it hard for me to identify as a horse person. Cause if these kind of people are considered horse people, what does that say about me?
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