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If we were to have to live without horses, would we be the same people we are today?? I keep thinking about this and the answer for me is always the same.
If I didn't have Skippy, I would have committed sucide last year. If I didn't have Skippy and hadn't killed myself, I would be severly depressed. I know that I would not be the same perons I am today without horses. They have pushed me through so much.
What about the rest of ya'll? Have you ever wondered??

I don't think I'd be as gutsy without having ridden.

i knwo the answer to that one i would be dead no questions asked. i started ridding after my parents got a divorce which was hard on me beccause i had younger siblings and was ignored and then when the horses moved i lost all will to live agian until my horse tee came into my life. sence i got him three years ago he has saved my life countless number of times. so with out horses in my life i wouldn't be here to post this.

Not just horses, imagine if there were no wnimals. Without horses or other animals, my life would be extremely lonley. Animals always calm me down, and my pets are always friends with me. I'm not the most social person in real life, so animals keep me company, especially since I'm an only child.

I never wonder, cause I know that nobody would..Where would the world be without Horses? Definately nowhere near where we are today, the pony express, the oregon trail, plowing the feilds, and where would the calvary of wars in the past be without the wonderful lippizzaner!? Mankind would have never survived without horses.

My mother died when I was 10. My life after that was full of counseling sessions, "happy" pills, and I became severely withdrawn and antisocial. One summer my mental health center sponsored patients for a weekly horse day camp at a local stable, Double Rainbow Equestrian Center. I had ridden a bit before then, on a family friend/neighbor's pony, Strawberry, a really old roan welsh mare. The woman that owned the pony didn't have really anyone to ride her, her grandkids were a few years older and a bit bigger than me, so every weekend I'd get to plod around on old Strawberry. Unfortunately, I had moved and hadn't ridden for about 2 years when I got the opportunity to go to a really awesome horse camp. I rode english at this camp and I LOVED IT. I ended up meeting my best friend, and I became a more confident, sociable, and overall happy individual.

I ended up taking 4 weeks of horse camps that summer, and I continued with lessons there for 2 years. I don't ride there anymore, but for the past two summers, I've been a camp counselor at the stable and now I get to help other kids that are going through hard times like I did, and plenty of other kids who are just going to have fun and to learn how to ride.

My god. What would my world be like without horses?

If I didn't have horses in my life, I probably would be depressed and antisocial, especially if I had been introduced to them and then unable to pursue it further.

Sine getting involved with the horse world was so fundamental in my social development in my pre-adolescent years, I would have been vastly different. Most likely I would have poor grades, be at worse odds with my Gifted Instructor, have no clue what I want to do with my life, essienatlly a worse social outcast. While I would also have the music department, most of my meaningful friends are from the camp where I went for horses and that I met through riding. I doubt I'd even have the theatre job I have no wsince I would be exceedingly introvert.
I think I'd be at Phillhaven by now. 10 years of being a social outcast with the introvertism and aversion to Physciatry, would quickly spiral downward.
Scarily enough, even my faith is tied in, as the horse camp I attended strengthened that faith and introduced me to strong adult figures of my faith.
I really don't like the person I would be, this past year of no riding has shown me that.