Saturday, October 31, 2009

A Reflection On What Might Have Been Avoided

By Andre Hansen

You choose to take a few classes to coach you how to ride. Your first day of class, you told that you're going to discover how to inspect and maintain a saddle. You will learn the part of western saddle and how they're used.

You just wanted to learn how to ride, why do you need to learn about doing upkeep on a saddle? You are saddened to learn that you need to learn the rest before you will be taught how to ride. Why can't you just learn the way to ride? You are told that you'll learn the answer to that question the day after. Great, now you have to wait.

All night you are brooding about why you cannot just ride the pony. To you, it seems that you've got to do unimportant work that you do not must know anything about. The next day as everyone seems to be getting ready for the days class, you see a van pull up. What are they doing here?

OK, why is an individual who is in a wheelchair is chatting to a grouping of people who are learning to ride? Crane tells the group that he must tell his story for them to realize why he is there. So he starts. He had things to do that afternoon and he needed to hurry up and get a ride in before he lost his opportunity. He was in a rush, so he decided to just throw a saddle on a pony and go.

He remembers meeting with his friend and they decided to take the horses to a stream to get some water. The very next thing he recollects is feeling something break, he started falling and then everything went black.

He would find out later that when he slid, he broke bones in his back. He learned that his accident might have been stopped if he just took a second to test the parts of western saddle. Now you see why derrick is there. He's living evidence that you need to be careful; he is the height of what not to do when it comes to horses and gear.

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