I have really funny friends, and sometimes we have amusing conversations. And sometimes the culmination of such conversations result in:
You know how it is. We are all trying really hard not to suck. Some may try harder than others, and some are in different places in their journey of trying not to suck. And not all journeys are in straight lines. (And there might have been a slightly different expression used during the development of this metric.)
Just imagine one side is the good/happy side, the other is the bad/sad side, and the middle is like Kent Farrington-level competence at not sucking. (Or any admirable rider/horse person of any discipline.)
Most of the time I feel pretty orangey-yellow or yellowy-orange when I am working with or around horses. Can I wrap a hoof? Definitely. Is that wrap going to stay on overnight? Mostly. But I ain’t no FEI groom.
Honestly, at some point I think any horse person has experienced almost every level of sucking or not sucking. But where do you think you’d put yourself on this spectrum the majority of the time? Questions and answers here are just for fun. Don’t nobody take ’emselves too serious now.
In other news, I did not ride last night. I had riding clothes for 50f, not 30f. I am sure I can think of the exact place where I’d put meteorologists on this spectrum.
I’m probably solidly red. Maybe orange-tinged on my best days.
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But you have xc balls of green
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rainbow balls
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🦄
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See i knew purple was me for a reason LOL!
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Nah, you definitely have some happy poop emojis going for you!
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I would place myself in orange. Interestingly enough, western and reining I feel orangey-yellow, and English I feel orangey-red. I just have to get that time and miles tho in English!
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I have no idea where I’d be in Western!
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I’m sure you’d be fine! It’s not too different from English!
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I don’t think this could have been brought to life any better.
I fall all over the place on that scale. I would say I’m a smiling POS when it comes to my horses general care I think and I will literally do anything for them. Riding wise I try but could be more committed to progress… which is when my horses eject me over the green liver pool of rainbow and unicorn excellence (to be clear I never touch that land in the saddle) and then I can be a pouty POS until I get my ducks in a row and jump back over.
Your paint skills have made my day.
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I do what I can.
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Ugh yes, so much yes. I’m going to go with orange. I may be a POS, but I’m happy about it. I hope to someday be a yellow. One can always hope after all!
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I feel like as long as the majority of the time we are on the happy shit side, it’s allllll good.
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