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Re: [RC] No success without risk of failure ! (100s) - Barbara McCrary

Rob, you obliviously come from the same generation as I. This is exactly the way I feel! I often say that living through the Great Depression taught some great lessons.....about how little you can do without and still live comfortably, with a loving family around you. You CAN live with few clothes and almost no money. You CAN do without the horse you wanted so desperately until WW2 was over. You CAN live without all the sugar, meat and other things you thought you wanted. You CAN live without a pair of shoes that fit well because there were no others available. Sometimes I get really nervous about how soft some segments of our society have become. We need new frontiers to cross.....I think endurance riding offers one of those frontiers. I would like to see most of our politicians be compelled to ride a 100 mile ride; then maybe they would get a reality check.

Barbara

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Subject: [RC] No success without risk of failure ! (100s)



Please Reply to: Rob and Annabelle jrlosey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I can't speak of endurance, I'm too new and will never be good at it because I'm too old. I can speak of life because I am old, though I never got real good at it.

Years ago great challenges were faced and overcome by hard working men and women. Settling this county. Crossing the west. Facing the dust bowl, WW1, the Great Depression and WW2. You had to succeed. Failure meant death, one great motivator.

Now we can't hardly move without tripping on safety nets. Fill out the right government paper work and you'll have housing, food, and enough money to buy your beer and cigarettes. Fail in business, just file for bankruptcy.

Yes these safety nets are good things, they show our humanity. But many have found it comfortable to just live in a safety net. If you don't try you can't fail. Late in life I found endurance. Riding without a net. Work hard, learn all you can, train, condition and prepare your horse. Know how to read your horse. Your horse will give it's all to care for you. You must learn to care for it.

Risk of failure is what made this country great. Preparing and overcoming that risk is what drew me to endurance. That's what makes endurance endurance. I choose goals more carefully now. This maybe my last goal. In endurance I still have a long way to go. Please don't string up one more safety net under one of the last true challenges left out there.

This year 50s. I may never ride a 100. Without the challenge and risk out failure I may not want to.

Rob and Annabelle

PS - The best book I ever read was "Ten Feet Tall, Still". There may never be another Julie Suhr. I've never met one, male or female. There will never be another if all the challenges she faced are all removed, watered down, and protected by safety nets.



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