Saturday, March 31, 2012
What One Man Had Done, Another Man Could Also Do
Thomas has a belief in individual genius. He believed if you started something you had to become dedicated to it, there was no such thing as backing down or shying away. He proved this one day on a horseback ride one day in Youngsbury. It was Thomas's first time riding a horse, he tried to follow someone over a six-bar gate and was thrown heavily to the rock hard ground. But without even speaking a single word Thomas got back up and mounted the horse, not once loosing his temper. He then made a second attempt at the gate this time he managed to actually stay on the horse. So he went around for a third shot, this time Thomas had cleared it with no problems. This had started his fascination in horsed and in Thomas's later years he would become a great horseman and show "all sorts of feats of personal agility."
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It's people like this that I always look up to. The ones who don't give up and don't let obstacles stop them from doing what they want to accomplish. Good for him!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like he is a pretty determined but cool-tempered guy. Is the book interesting so far?
ReplyDeleteI give this man a lot of credit. I think it would have been hard for me not to say something and I probably would have gotten mad and not wanted to try again.
ReplyDeleteHe seems determined! Lucky for him that it only took three tries. What made him want to start riding horses- did he see someone doing it which made him want to do it?
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