Follow your heart
aiaibi | 06 February, 2010 02:45
Follow your heart
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San YsidroEd hardy. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
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“Thatwomen jeans night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a new jordansdiagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4christian louboutin,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.”
“He putsupra shoes a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that readgate valve, ‘See me after class.’”
“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and askedmlb jersey, ‘Why did I receive an F?’”
“The teacher saidwholesale abercrombie fitch, ‘This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of moneytrue religion. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you’ll have to pay large stud fees. Thereghd hair’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, ‘If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goalOil painting, I will reconsider your grade.’”
“The boy went home and thought about it long and hardPlayground equipment. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, ‘Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. Howevercarbon black, I think it is a very important decision for you.’”
“Finallychina tour, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He statedMechanical seal, ‘You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.’”
Monty then turned to the assembled group and saidflow meter, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He addedsteam pressure reducing valve, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.” When the teacher was leaving, he said, ‘Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacherY type strainer, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreamsHydraulic fittings. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.’”
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San YsidroEd hardy. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by sayingmens jeans, “I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would goed hardy clothing from stable to stablenike sb, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy’s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a seniornba jersey, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.”
“Thatwomen jeans night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a new jordansdiagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4christian louboutin,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.”
“He putsupra shoes a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that readgate valve, ‘See me after class.’”
“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and askedmlb jersey, ‘Why did I receive an F?’”
“The teacher saidwholesale abercrombie fitch, ‘This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of moneytrue religion. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you’ll have to pay large stud fees. Thereghd hair’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, ‘If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goalOil painting, I will reconsider your grade.’”
“The boy went home and thought about it long and hardPlayground equipment. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, ‘Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. Howevercarbon black, I think it is a very important decision for you.’”
“Finallychina tour, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He statedMechanical seal, ‘You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.’”
Monty then turned to the assembled group and saidflow meter, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He addedsteam pressure reducing valve, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.” When the teacher was leaving, he said, ‘Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacherY type strainer, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreamsHydraulic fittings. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.’”
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