Sunset Boulevard, twisting boulevard
Secretive and rich, a little scary

REFLECTIONS. HAHA. i've never used that word in such a long time. what am i going to reflect about? well. riding boston. i've realised that in all my years of riding, i've never consistently ridden the one horse, having never ever leased or owned one, or even ridden more than once a week. that in all my riding lessons, it was always concentrating on how you can improve yourself (or rather try to keep the same standard, eh jun and kath? :P what can you really do by rising trot large for 45 minutes minus mounting, walking to and from the arena and dismounting time, and standing still while other people attempt canter, then try to stop their runaway mount, breathe a sigh of relief, next person up, oh no i hope my horse doesn't do the same thing..). or maybe try to get the horse to stop doing something naughty it likes to do. HAHA.

the next time you get on the same horse, which might be a few months, or a month or at least a few weeks later, you try to do the same thing or just STAY ON if its habits get worse. but your purpose of doing it is always very short-term. the way to ride that type of horse is never ingrained in you, all of it flies out the window the next time you ride it again. i've never, ever felt it was a long-term learning process. it was one week, one thing, next week, a complete different story. never really a building-on process.

which i am suddenly starting to feel now. it's quite a strange and unfamiliar feeling. i've hardly ridden another horse in the past half a year. and i don't feel the way i felt before, which was the moment you dismount the story ends. next week you hope to get a nicer horse, one that doesn't take off and run away bucking and farting, one that you can bend a little bit, so you can practise other things and maybe, maybe get up to proper prelim standard. getting a horse round for a few seconds, you would be on top of the world.

now i feel like it's an ongoing thing, a continuous learning process, so things become ingrained in you, so you can ride the horse better the next time, and maybe, just maybe, it might learn something too. every ride is a contination of that journey. a buildup on what you've learnt. and you can start to build a relationship. so this is what it's like to ride the same horse all the time. you actually have something to work FOR, to correct and IMPROVE on. that's not just for yourself.

it still tastes damn funny, this new "ongoing" feeling.

p/s lol some person saw my YT riding videos & asked if i was some famous rider.. HAHAH! funneh.. i was like, uhh yeahh actually, i'm about as un-famous as one can ever be.. :P

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