Blog #10
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The Little Horse
There are many open spaces and pastures near our home. But there is one pasture that I drive by often. In that pasture are a few tiny horses, and a few large horses. The tiny horses always make me smile.
I often think, those tiny horses probably have it all figured out. Sure, sometimes I look at them and think- that is a tiny horse, they are fun to watch running about next to the big horse. But one day I thought- does that tiny horse know it is a tiny horse? Does the tiny horse look around at the other horses in the pasture and dream of being a bigger horse? Does the tiny horse even see that there is a difference between itself and the larger horse?
Maybe the tiny horse looks at the bigger horse and thinks, gosh, what a bummer to be a big horse. They are tall and gangly. It is difficult for people to saddle up upon their backs. Those large horses really must crane their necks to get down there to where the good grass grows. What if the tiny horse has never been out of that pasture, and all it knows is that there are a few horses that look like it, and a few that are much larger. From that perspective it is plausible that the tiny horse may think it is normal, and that the larger horse is not. Then I guess who are we to determine which one is normal, and which is not?