The sound of hooves hitting the hard bark surface of a tree trunk splits the calm air of a warm summer day, as the apples fall from their home into the baskets waiting for them. The stallion that had just bucked the tree let out a sigh as he looked at all the trees that still remained for him to buck. Normally he wouldn’t have a problem doing all this work after all this was what he signed up for when he got hired to work at Sweet Apple Archers, but today his mind was distracted by thoughts of things he thought he had left behind a long time ago. Could he really go back to it now? Would he still have it?
“Something on your mind there partner?” came the familiar voice of the stallion’s boss and part owner of Sweet Apple Archers Apple Jack. The stallion never really talked to her at length, but only in passing. He much preferred to just take his orders and do is job without question, but after spending part of his life doing just that he found this job to be a snap.
“It’s nothing just got some stuff on my mind and haven’t got it all figured out yet.”
“Yeah I reckon we all have days like that.”
“Yeah…,” was the stallions reply as Apple Jack started to walk away. “Hey Apple Jack have you ever had to go back to something you thought you gave up a long time ago?”
Apple Jack took a moment to ponder the question she was just given. “Well I can’t reckon I have. I spent most of my life on this farm and never wanted to do anything else, but I spouse if you thinking about going back to something you haven’t done in a while you should treat it like swimming.”
“How so?”
“Well all you can really do is jump in and see if you sink or swim.”
“Yeah I spouse your right,” was all the stallion said.
A young stallion stood in the crowded hallways of his school. It was the first day of the new school year and the stallion was try to keep an eye out for one mare that had caught his eye last year, but never got the chance to really talk to her. It was funny really even though he only ever talked to her in passing the stallion found himself thinking more about her as the school year approached and a little ironic that he found it hard to remember what she looked like, but something just made him want to talk to her. Of course this was all easier said than done, because once he finial did see her he found his tongue growing heavy and as she started coming closer he found himself growing nervous. He knew he couldn’t screw this up he had just jump in and see if he’d sink or swim.
The stallion just took a deep breath as he walked past Apple Jack as he made his way up the path. “Hey where are you going you still got work to do?”
“You can consider this my two week notice, because right now I have to see if I’ll sink or swim,” was all the stallion said as he continued up the path.