You’re six years old and someone calls you ugly or fat, and that’s your first scar. Reality breaks into your house and tells you that your mother’s words aren’t the truth once you walk out of that roof; the girl next to you doesn’t want to be your friend because she doesn’t like the way your hair looks; and the boy doesn’t want to play tag with you because he thinks you run too slow.
Then you’re 16 and the boy you first loved decided to pick up his things, take parts of you, and leave. He was never heard from again, so, you go out and try to find him in everyone else you meet. In strangers, you try to find comfort, and in friends, you live under pretense.
Suddenly, you’re in your 20s without a sense of direction. Both the boys who didn’t choose you don’t mean much anymore when you’ve lost yourself. Maybe you should have majored in business during college, or maybe you should have chose a different career path than the one you’re on now; and when you look at your bank account, it’s emptier than your wallet. You wonder if everyone you pass in the streets are in the same boat, sailing in the same rocky seas. And then, you tell yourself it’s too late.
But, it’s never too late to start over. Half of us are trying to figure out what we’re meant to do in this life, and the other half know what they’re meant to do but not how. Each day is a stepping stone, it’s an opportunity to start. Despite past mistakes, wounds, and regrets, the Earth is still spinning, and you too will move along with it. Growth is never postponed until tomorrow, you can start now.
youd think horses were one of those animals that has horrible health due to humans breeding unhealthy animals to achieve a certain look but no they really are just naturally that fucked up
horses’ lungs bleed when they run at a certain speed
if their diet is too rich / low in selenium their hooves fall off
excuse me
The reason they have such poor health outcomes after breaking or otherwise injuring their legs is because their legs are actually hyper-specialized fingers; and as in human fingers, there is very little muscle supporting the bone, just a lot of cartilage and tendons and whatnot. You’d think an animal that literally evolved to run away to avoid being eaten would have ALSO evolved sturdier running appendages, but…
I fucking hate this post, it’s 1 AM I don’t want to know that horse legs are giant fucking fingers
holy shit
the homologues of the (human) knee and elbow on a horse are at the level of the ribcage. the “knees” in the middle of the legs are homologous to wrists on the front and heels on the back. anything below that is hand/foot.
I understood most of that but the diagram for me is what makes me never want to look at a horse again
arabian horses have been bred so badly that they have breathing problems because of the shape of their face
This is how horses are built compared to a human
I wish Tumblr would stop telling me things about horses
Not only do they walk on their fingers, they only walk on their middle fingers. The thumb and pinky finger are completely absent and the index and ring fingers are underdeveloped and make up the splint bones. So basically, half of the horse’s leg is just their fuck you finger with accompanying metacarpal/metatarsal. So if a horse kicks you, they’re quite literally giving you the finger.
They also just….can’t vomit.
Which is like important you know when you eat something bad and your body is like “let’s just get rid of that” and you vomit?
Horses bodies are like “well…..we have this in us now and it’ll probably kill us so that’s that!”
no matter what you did, or what happened to you, you are worthy of starting over, you are worthy of recovery, you are not ruined, evil, or unfixable. you are worthy of love and support and a new beginning. you are stronger than this
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