I had a Sleipnir moment. · 1:41am Aug 29th, 2014
For the last few weeks I've been taking horseback riding lessons. I've always really wanted to: I love horses. I actually really honestly do.
For the last few weeks, things have been utter crap and they're honestly just getting worse, and will continue to get worse over the next twoish weeks. Among other things, I have to go back to Canada because of. Complications that I'd rather not get into at the moment.
But today, well. I went to my lesson feeling horrible and cranky and cruddy. Headachy, sore, grumpy, the works. Stuff didn't start great. My mind kept running away from me.
Then, about halfway through the lesson, the teacher said to take off the stirrups.
So I did, and the feeling was indescribable. It was... freedom. I brought Louie up all the way to a canter and it was just... freedom.
And I realized that I could be happy, even if things were terrible. I could still be happy. I could smile, and I could laugh, and everything was alright. No matter what else was going on, I could actually be positive. Me. The most bitter and cranky person in the world. There's no reason that it should have made me so happy, and yet at the same time, I realized... there was no reason to be unhappy, either. If I could smile, why not... smile?
I hope we can all find something in our lives that helps unlock that little bit of Sleipnir inside all of us.
~BlackRoseRaven
'Dat happiness.
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It's really weird. But nice.
Not a real Sleipnir moment if you didn't end up in someone who isn't your's bed plastered.
All the same congratulations.
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Thanks. Although there's similarities, at least. You bounce and thrust a lot when riding.
I really wish I could favorite blog posts. I truly hope you're able to work out the complications, and thank you for sharing this: you've spread some happiness around.
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Thank you for readin', and I'm glad it made a good impact. I much appreciate the well wishes, and here's hoping things get better all around, then.
This is just a curiosity I have that has nothing to do with the blog post but is there a specific reason you use names and concepts from Northern myths such as Nátta Edda and Fimbulvetr or do you just like the mythology?
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Not a whole lot. I could make up a really good reason, I'm sure, but honestly, I just enjoy the mythos and the stories and the language and. Pretty much everything else. It ended up meshing surprisingly well with the whole pony-thing I built up and I just kept running with it, and eventually it just became very... familiar to me, so to speak. I end up modifying everything like crazy, but. I always seem to return back to old nordic stuff for a lot of my base concepts.
Thanks very much for the watch, too. Much appreciated.