The nice heat in that this summer has provided us, reminds me of the summer when i was 10 years old.
I had spend most of the summer in the barn, enjoying the company of my horse. Also i spend two weeks in Isle of white, with my parrents in the beginning of the summer.
It was in the beginning of August and the summer vacation were about to end. It was the friday before school started on monday.
I were spending the evening at the riding stables as usual, when a familar looking man suddently entered the barn, with his horse all saddled up. He had really nice riding equipment and looked very confident.
As he entered the barns, it suddently came to my mind where I had seen him. He was appearing in some of my horse pictures and horse posters, and I actually had one of his horse training videos.
As he came closer, I nocked friendly and he smiled and gave a nice comment on my pony Bernard.
I couldn't believe that there were a famous equestrian in our small horse community. As I asked around, I found out that the famous equestrian were a good friend of the owner of the horse farms, and had come to give free leasons.
As I took my pony Bernard out for a ride, I saw the famous equestrian on the course, doing some light horse training, it was amazing to see how he really had full controle over his horse and how he made some beautiful and perfect horse jumpings.
When the equestrian finished, he rided towards us and asked if we would join him, for a light horse training session. It was a VERY LIGHT horse training. Most of the time went on asking him of horse facts and he really seems to know all about horses.
I remember that the session only took one hour, but I can still remember what a huge impact it made on all of us. We were talking about this day, for weeks to come.
And it was nice to have a genuine role model that most of all was a simple nice guy, who also was very good as horse riding.
Still the day today, it can still amaze my how small act of kindness, sometimes really can have huge impacts on those who were involved.
