Inspiration

A person who writes a blog I follow wrote a blog about the people who inspire her, so I thought I would do the same.  On her's, she writes about how the people who inspire us change us and how we act; how we are inspired by the person who smiles as you pass them.  We're inspired by peopel who look pretty and act confident, and - for me at least - who have lived their lives and ended up where they want to be.  That, or they are living how they want.

Ray "Iron Man" Goldstein

Ray has been out and lived as much as he can.  Famous for his replacements of bones and for his wins - especially at Plumpton - where he (I believe) remains unbeaten.  He's now withdrawn to have a happy life with a successful marraige and happy successful kids.  What's really better than that?

Pippa Funnell

She's pretty, successful and has a brilliant name for herself.  She's really happy in her marraige and is really pleased with her life as far as I can tell.  Genius.

Eddie Macken

A legend in his own lunchtime - so to speak.  The above photograph is of him and Boomerang, the horse he won Hickstead with four times consecutively - I think.  He's now really getting on but still riding and competing, a bit.  He really did amazing things while he was riding a lot, and was amazingly good at it all.  He then, once again, stepped back and is - as far as I know- happy.

Lee Miller

A change from the others.  A beautiful, seriously beautiful, woman who took amazing photographs of seriously gross things, sometimes; like prison guards from the Holocaust having killed themselves.  But she did a load of things.  Modelling, photography, and a whole lot more which I guess I'll learn about on the 9th (I'm going to see her house thing).  She's beautiful, smart and intellegent...she's also done a lot.  Though nothing to do with horses, for once.

From those people it's probably apparent that I want to be able to look back on my life and have lived it to the full.  It's really important to me.  To be able to have a bit of all those people in my life, that'd be awesome.  After all, I have to be riding horses in competitions and while not riding taking photos of other people jumping, between teaching people English in France.  That'll be fun.