If I had to describe the kind of person I am, I could tell you the textbook definition, other peoples' understandings, or my own grip of my personality, which, as most, is clouded since I'm looking from my own perspective. Or the clearest, depending on how you look at it. My textbook classification, as people in Parelli land would call it, is a very high spirited right-brained extrovert. I'm twenty, an obvious horse lover, and a Mcdonalds/Tractor Supply employee. Other people usually classify me as simply crazy, and an openly kind-hearted soul, although the oddly perceptive ones can see me as an often guarded person.
I believe that reasonably anything is possible, given enough effort. Grudges are pointless, as in the end all you ever end up doing is making yourself bitter. Acts of kindness are always a good thing-the great purpose of life, as I see it, is to help others. Although helping others doesn't always mean bending over backwards for them, it sometimes means giving them a good hard slap or so, and then smiling and redirecting them without anger.
I'm a writer, a pokemon-lover, and a fan of most things sci-fi and fantasy. I love my books, and when the tendency strikes, I like to draw as well. As with most of my generation, I'm addicted to my electronics (until they break), having a particular fondness with cameras, computers, and the 3DS that has replaced my laptop, whom I had to sweetly put to rest after three fond years of companionship.
I have been firmly obsessed with horses (as the horse pictures all over this blog suggests) since I was a child, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it. It's good because it gives me something to strive for. The bad thing is that I'm severely allergic to horses themselves, and the outdoors in general.
So, in order to combat my asthmatic/allergenic tendencies as to still keep doing what I love, I have three allergy shots once a week. and am on a four-year long plan to make me less allergic. I also regularly take preventative steroids and a rather over-bearing amount of benedryl allergy pills, along with my daily nebulizer treatments and whatnot.
Still with me? Good. It's a lot of medication for the average person, but it is, and has helped, me keep an active and horse-filled lifestyle. Is it an obstacle for my career plans to become (conceitedly) one of Pat Parelli's best? Yes, yes it is. Will I overcome it? Absolutely.
I work two jobs currently, one at mcdonalds and one at tractor supply. My days off are by request only, because I made it a point to work only one job a day. That way I can work with the horses I work with (currently I'm up to six) regularly.
It is a busy schedule for most people. But when you think about it, the majority of people who are in college have just as busy a schedule. And I have a goal in mind-I want to become a Parelli Natural Horsemanship Instructor. There are scholarship programs within it, but you first have to go through the Fast Track course to be looked at, and you have to pay for that-the payment for the course can be anywhere from around four thousand to nine thousand, and that doesn't include travel expenses. My family can't help me pay for it.
Challenge accepted.
I guess there's not much more to tell. Or there probably is, but I can't think of anything else at the moment. It's about time I got this blog rolling, so tada! First blog post done. :)
