Some Fresh Oats, Some Good Hay, and a Clean Stall

Now, I thought I was going to do this weekly, but I'll just scribe what comes to me. This isn't one of my "official" life lessons on my running list, but it is never the less a lesson as told to me by my Mom. **SN: There will be many of these lessons via Mom - trust**

Let me paint the scenario: I had just started talking to a new guy and I was flying to see him. Can you say ECSTATIC! While sitting in the airport, basking in the glow of seeing my long time crush I get a call from my mom. Here's how that conversation went:

Mom: Hey hon, are you already to go?

Me: Yes, I'm just sitting in the airport waiting to board. **trying to play down my giddiness**

Mom: Well, I'm goin' to tell you a story that your Grandfather told to me. You see your Grandfather didn't do too well with people so his stories always dealt with animals and farm life.

Me: Awww...hell.

Mom: There was this old horse that had been out to pasture for a quite awhile. He hadn't been back to the barn for quite some time. One day, the farmer comes down to get the old horse to bring him back up to the barn. Soon as that farmer came down, that old horse broke headlong through the gate heading back to the barn. That old horse knew that there would be fresh oats, good hay, and a clean dry stall waiting. All the things that old horse been dreamin' about - but what you think it's gonna be isn't always truth.  So be careful, as those fresh oats may not be so fresh, that good hay may not be so good and that stall may not be so clean. Just be aware that what you've been dreaming about may not be the case.

Me: Did you just call me an old dried up horse?

Moral: That relationship didn't end up to be all I dreamed it would be and I was that horse. I hadn't been in a relationship in quite some time and was dying to have some fresh oats, some good hay, and a clean stall to lay my head. Turned out - wasn't my barn to be in....




Now, all of the things I write are my life's lessons. I share so that maybe others can learn from what I've been through or seen. I don't have all the answers (well, maybe most...) but its something to ponder. I'm not a therapist and this is not intended to provide counseling or advice. Just someone who feels they've learned a thing or two.