Can't take the Country out of the Girl, apparently...
At a horse show recently I realized, you can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl. I spent all of my adult life trying to get myself away from all things country and here I am finding my personal joy immersed in nothing but the goodness of country things! Boots, jeans, outdoors, horses, dirt, sweat and pure bliss! It is insane to me how fast life changes. Two years ago I was giving up on a life long dream, keeping a door closed to what I really wanted, telling myself that those wants were not within my grasp. I was throwing myself into my work and only my work. I was unhappy, hollow, going through the motions of adult life and trying to figure out where I belonged. Two years ago I thought I would never have a horse, thought I was going to be some varying level of miserable forever. I thought that being an adult meant being in some level of constant disappointment. I was wrong. With the encouragement of my awes...