Why Do You Ride?

I was listening to a talk by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and within the conversation she quoted a scene from an old film called The Red Shoes- a film about a ballerina.

In it, a man asks the ballerina, ‘Why do you dance?’

And she replies, ‘Why do you want to stay alive?’

He replies, ‘Well, I’m not exactly sure, I just know that I must!”

to which she says, “That is my answer also”.

There are many reasons why I ride and write, my two favourite loves, but the most pressing is simply, I just know that I must.

This, I believe, is the urgency of the creative spirit, a spirit we are lucky to all have, no matter whether we currently find it to be an ember or a fire.

For whatever reason, we just know that we must.

Onwards,

❤️ Jane