Reminds Me of Highschool

Sumner Hill Stables, the home to a very dynamic herd of about thirteen horses. Now in a herd, there are many different social standings, kind of like high school. You have your jocks, the horses who are most fit and fight harder to be in charge. Then, of course, their girls, who were chosen based on their charisma. There is the lead mare, who is kind of like the head cheerleader, she is the most outgoing and very good at bossing other horses around. Below the populars, you have the average horses, which are more passive and are the followers. Then, of course, you have the dorks of the herd, who are either just really old, or have never cared to make a stand.


My horse, Sly, is one of the more passive, followers of the herd. He kind of just goes along with everyone else and especially since he is new to this herd, he is at the very bottom, even below the dorks. Finding a social standing in a herd is a long and sometimes painful process. It's as if you just moved from Greenland to Hawaii, and start school as a freshman, it's a whole new world. You go through the pain of not knowing anyone, to being bullied by the top dogs, to maybe sitting with the nice girl at lunch, to talking to someone in your math class outside of class, to finally making a few friends and belonging somewhere. Now we can see where this mess of a social order comes from, it comes from the natural world!