22/05/2024
An by no one I mean:
Don’t wait for someone else to make it better.
If only the FEI, the KNHS, the FN, the FFE, even the state or the EU or whoever, would install rules and ensure better welfare.
Here’s a spoiler: they won’t.
They won’t save them. Or us.
And that’s just in the nature of things.
Rules won’t make life better. Only ethics can do that and they have to come from within.
The FEI and their lobbyists can only operate because there are people not believing in the good things. Not having the same ethics. You can put rules upon them but that won’t change them.
Change needs to come from within.
And that’s us, the consumers, the supporters. And we need to initiate that butterfly effect.
It’s the same with choosing a healthier environmental friendly lifestyle. I know a lot of people would do it. But they wait for the rules and possibilities to come from above to enable them. Guess what, they will never come so they will never change.
To choose the right things is often uncomfortable and heck, are we comfortable beings. If “lazy” would be a real thing, humans would have invented it.
We don’t want to look at uncomfortable things or talk about uncomfortable things, don’t even say DOING the uncomfortable things.
But here we are. Letting things happen to creatures we say we dearly love.
And I’m not better, true. I hate confrontation and speaking up out loud. Because it’s uncomfortable. I fear the hater comments. But I cherish every little supporter. And I learn everyday to be bolder, wiser, kinder.
Learn with me. Let’s lead, so others can follow.
If you are wanting to speak up and you need that one person behind your back to stand tall, give me a sign.
I’m here.
Here’s what you can do:
Speak openly about your opinion.
Even when you’re insecure, why you maybe don’t want to use a certain bit or tack. That you maybe think it could hurt the horse. Or you heard a thing or two about living conditions. Or that this posture indeed is behind the vertical and the horse is showing pain. It doesn’t have to be a stating fact, it doesn’t have to be defended. Just a seed, in a conversation that maybe becomes a seedling in someone’s mind.