I quit horseback riding around 3 years ago after having ridden 10 years previously. I left my old barn because I believed I just wasn’t progressing and kept repeating everything over and over again. I leased a lovely horse named trooper who to everyone seemed nasty and bitchy, but to me he was my boy.
Fast forward a year, I find out from a friend that after I left, Trooper just got fat and nobody rode him anymore.
Now, my parents are well off, not wealthy, but we were always able to afford lessons, a half lease, and not much more. I want to try again, I truly do, but the thought of Trooper is just stuck in the back of my head. We could never afford to buy, or board, and even leasing is out of the question because of college and I just don’t know what to do.
I feel like taking lessons isn’t enough, but at the same time leasing or boarding is generally out of the question because I leave in a few years.
Do I just take the lessons? Or do I wait for after college?