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Lisa
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 United Kingdom
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 Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 12:30:53 PM
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How many of us have made sensible decisions where horses are concerned??
Why is it that when if you really thought about it if you didn't have any horses and ran round in a small diesel car you could save so much money!!
If you could turn back the clock would you do anything differently? And if you could see into the future how would you see things turning out?
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silv
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 1:38:11 PM
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Wouldnt change a thing.....Therefore carry on being skint,and doing lottery......if only.... |
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Acorn Arabians
Platinum Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 2:11:56 PM
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There were one or two purchases that I wish I hadnt made, due to loyalty to the breeder sympathy for the horse etc, also wish I hadnt trusted the people I have they were not worthy of my friendship. Other than that Im glad I did it the way I did, it was character building if nothing else!!! 
Helen
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SueB
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 2:15:23 PM
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Yep, I should have married that millionare who I met while working many years ago!!....
Seriously, I wish that I had gone to Art College instead of being a rebel!.......
I wish that I had reduced my numbers of horses earlier than I did, our lives our so much easier now, we enjoy our horses more, because there are less of them, and we sometimes have a little bit of money left!! to live or just indulge on our horses.
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Wendy Allan
Silver Member
United Kingdom
310 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 3:02:50 PM
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| I wish I hadn't trusted my part time groom/riding instructor way back when i first got horses. I even bought her a performance horse to compete with, but after I found him in a field 3 months after she disappeared (long, long story) and had to nurse him back to health, I could make an exception to my lifelong non-violence rule if I ever saw her again. I should have trusted my instincts. |
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gillsta
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Scotland
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 7:16:46 PM
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Wish I had never got married to my very exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx husband. Could not write what I think about him on this site beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Gill
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Wyllow
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 7:50:12 PM
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Helen,
I know what you mean!
I also wish I had had not made a couple of aquisitions based on my sympathy for the horse!!
But I learned a great deal from both horses involved and in a way. I'm therefore glad I knew them.
Also, I have made the mistake of assuming that becasue I try to be totally honest with people and treat them as friends that they will be totally honest with me, straight in their dealings and worthy of friendship!!
BIG MISTAKE!!!!
Keep making THAT one...sadly. Is this optomism or crass stupidity?
However, I have the belief that what goes around comes around and no one will escape the consequences of less than honest dealing with others.
Still, no education comes for free and by that token I should have a Doctorate in the subject "Experience" ~ oh, isn't that the alternative name Oscar Wilde gave to our mistakes???
I'd agree with you ~ its certainly character building.
Could have done without it, though, and YES, of course I'd change those sort of mistakes that put cherished hopes and dreams back years owing to wasted opportunities and money...but having said that ~ I'd not change the way I did things as I believed I acted with honesty and integrity even if others have been less than straight with me.
At the end of the day, you have to live with yourself and I at least feel that I've hoodwinked no one and would never do it even if they did it to me.
No, I'd never do things differently, I could never be less than the most straightforward and honest I can be.
Just wish I could wave a wand over one or two people that have not extended me the same courtesy!!!
Guess Fate might do that for me.
Eventually.
Thing is, I think most of us can always justify what we DID ~ it's that "what if?" that is so troubling ~ the things we DIDN'T do or DIDN't say...
I've lost a couple of very dear friends to cancer in the last few years and life is so short ~ it's what you never did that you regret the most.
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stella
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 8:22:53 PM
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Nicci
Hear hear to everything you have said.
People always say to me, "Wow four horses, you must be loaded!" Errr, no, actually, quite the opposite but life is for living to the full.
I was diagnosed with cervical cancer a few years ago and thankfully, (touch wood and all that), am fully recovered but it has made me make sure that every day I see something around me that is beautiful. Whether it's a sunset or one of my dopey old dogs lying in the sunshine  , life is wonderful.
I don't think any of us are sensible when it comes to our horses, or any of our four legged friends come to that, but I know my life would be empty without them.
So Down With Sensible!!!!
Stella x
  
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zoew37
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Scotland
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 9:49:23 PM
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Think i wouldnt have bought my first pony, as at the time she was completly unsuitable, wouldnt change her for the world now but at the time she scared me to death. Other things i wished i had never done, people i wished i had never met but you cant change the past just have to live with it. Only thing i can say is i have learned from my mistakes and wont be repeating them. Wouldnt change any of the horses i have as they are all very special and dear to me, even if i have nothing and them everything, the cosy feeling i get when looking at them all tucked in at night in their cosy rugs is worth more than any fancy car or clothes (i think anyway) :) !!!!
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Wyllow
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Jan 2004 : 11:06:53 PM
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Stella,
So glad you are well after that scare.
Yes, any kind of brush with mortality leaves you with a very deep appreciation of life and yes, I have four ponies and not a lot spare, but I wouldn't change that!!
"All the treasures of the Earth I have placed between thine eyes..." Allah supposedly said to the horse he had just created...and I reckon that to have a share of that, I am rich indeed!
~Nicci |
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bridie
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Jan 2004 : 2:02:19 PM
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Yes I too wish I hadnt put so much time,love & effort into certain `friendships` but it taught me a lot.
I wish I had bred a foal from my old arab mare....too late now 
I dearly wish I had left my cheating very ex husband sooner rather than later...... a house with its own land & stables is no substitute for the happiness & peace I have now.
There is an old saying "what dont kill us makes us stronger" how very true.
Mandy x |
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Wyllow
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Jan 2004 : 4:30:13 PM
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I guess it does make us stronger, Mandy, but it still hurts when you've been let down or cheated on, deceived or manipulated in any way ~ yes, it hurts a LOT at the time.
~Nicci |
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