What is your favorite animal?
Ice-Skating.
Swimming deep underwater.
Running.
These top three activities gave me a buzzing surge of exhilaration and a strong sense of control over my movements.
I miss being able to do them, with a fierce ache.
But one thing, I’ve also dreamt of one day being able to do, is learn to ride with the wind! In other words, horseriding! To escape the concrete roads, race through fields of flowers, hills upon hills. Roam amidst sand dunes. Becoming one with another creature who can sense your temperament without you having to say a word!
I’ve loved horses ever since I knew they existed! The DreamWorks movie, Spirit was my childhood favourite !
BUT, I also type this with a numb heart, knowing, there are children who’ll never grow up to experience what ice-skating is. There are teenagers who may have once found calm and quiet beneath the water in pools too or at the beach, but will never get to taste the sweetness of such memories again. There are mothers who used to enjoy the company of their favourite animals. (Maybe they dreamt of learning to ride horses one day too!) Fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, who would once run to get to work, to earn and support their families, who no longer have family members *left* to support, now race to be of aid to others.
Resilient to the core. Through and through.
May gentle horses and beautiful creatures greet the fallen and those who no longer roam this earth seeking a safe place to find refuge in.
May their souls be taken in the softest of ways, as if they too were riding the wind, to the Gate of the Gardens of Paradise that await 🤲🏽 Aameen!
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a lil disclaimer : all images used in this post were from Pinterest 🍎
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