Sustenance

What is it that we truly need for survival, for satisfaction, for happiness?  Love, food, shelter are the first things that come to my mind.  What is it that really sustains a human being?  All of us are different, of course, but when it comes down to it, what is it we need to live?  Or better yet, in these times, what can we live without?


Horses do not require a barn, Mexican beaches, red satin stilettos- they require food, water, and safety.  The freedom to socialize and breed.  To move and rest and play.  Sounds like we humans have a lot of the same requirements... However we have a tendency to get caught up with all the bells and whistles.


For example- I have a $2000 computer in front of me with more of that in camera equipment.  Do I need that? No, not really, it does however allow me to feed my soul.  Or what I perceive what my soul requires.  Technology is not sustenance but what I can do with it, that, I feel sustains me.  One is truly all we ever need but how many of us can handle that? On a good day, I can feel that belief pulsing through my veins.  On most days,  I feel and give in to wants, obsessions, and desires.  Maybe I just need more to do? I've tried that.  Becoming a workaholic was great and then came the burn out.  We have all the tools within, accessing them has become difficult for the majority of us.  Horses use them every day.  Every second of every day.  There is no question of what they need to live and what they can live without.

One of the last pristine places on Earth.  It's simplicity presents all that is needed for survival.

One blade of luscious green grass surrounded by dozens of its friends, that is quite simply sustenance for a horse.  They are not thinking "Gee I wish that I could not eat this green grass and go chill in front of a television eating some meal replacement."  That's the beauty part of a horse, they are not fake, nor do they require falsities. 


I have known people to adorn their horses with as many clothes as they themselves own, at least as pricey.  And I am guilty of that too.  I have purchased $200 winter blankets for my old guy.  Did he really need it? Well in the wild, no.  He would have found a way to shelter himself from the elements.  In this life we have created for ourselves, however, we have mostly taken away the ability for animals to seek natural protection and so we anthropomorphize them by projecting our bare skin omnivorous needs onto them.  Sounds kinda silly.  But we still do it.  And its big business.

Which of these things is not like the others?

What it comes down to is that our lives could truly emulate that of the equine rather than that of the metro sexual lifestyle that is pushed/chosen on/for us.