high on summertime

I fell in love with horses in 4th grade. My friend, Hailey, and I read every book and watched every horse movie ever made. At  recess we would pretend to go riding around the soccer field. I saved every penny trying to buy myself a horse (I never did) while Hailey's parents bought her one and paid to board it up the street. We went riding all the time and I loved everything about it, even cleaning horse crap from the stalls. I took riding lessons for a couple years and when I was in 7th grade one of Hailey's horses had a baby. We slept in the coral and helped birth and watch a cute little filly take it's first steps. Then my priorities slowly shifted, I stopped taking riding lessons and Hailey and I stopped hanging out. Horses just weren't my thing! Until about a month ago.

It's crazy to me that after not being in a saddle for 6 years, it's like nothing has changed. It feels so natural to be galloping past the lake. I just feel like myself again.