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Every time I Think My Life Is Figured Out My Brain Tells Me I Am Wrong
Do I just have too many dreams?
Sometimes I feel that I am stuck in two worlds.
I have this dream to live on an off-grid farm in the middle of the mountains. Build an Earthship and be completely sustainable.
It would be surrounded by fruit trees and pastures for the animals to roam. Since traveling throughout the world I have noticed that there are so many animals that are abused or have no homes.
Luckily here in Colombia, the street dogs are very well taken care of. Everyone leaves food out for them.
However, when I was volunteering in Argentina I noticed this was not the case. It is very common there to sell a horse to the slaughter once the horse is too old or no longer useful.
Maybe the horse has a limp, off to the slaughter. I understand that horses are useless if they can’t use their legs. Yet this horse just had a little limp, another was just old.
To this day it makes me sad that they were ok just sending the animals to be killed after it was their pet, and had a name. I want to…
