Today i'm going to talk about getting the "break" in life. We all at some stage needed that little break to get somewhere in life that we wanted. For me it was always horse racing, so at the age of fifteen I applied to a racing school that only accepted thirty students each year. For someone that had no experience actually riding a horse what odds did I have? Low and behold, I was accepted. Was this the infamous break that everyone was telling me about, being granted a place in this academy, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, all I cared I was in.After years of working hard and trying to ride my best, I now find myself at a stage where i feel things have stopped going in the forward direction and more like to a standstill. Waking up each morning going to work, putting my years of skill and knowlage into use,all for what? The question I keep asking myself is "what does it take for one to get a chance?" When someone decides to "put you up" are they buying into your skills or are they buying you a person, is it they like your character, your drive, your ambition?
After being let down by a game I love so much, I was having a discussion recently with someone very close to me and I said to them, "I think i'm going to give up on racing" straight away i got the response "maybe racing has given up on you". Maybe this is the harsh reality of it, or is it?
Try to remember when you were given a chance, what did it feel like? maybe it didn' work out so well in the end, ask yourself why? How do you know when your chance is finally gone? Does it actually disappear or do you just give up ??
