October 9, 2015 
1. Your horse was technically your first love.
https://twitter.com/Shay_Shay81497/status/627880829788794881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
2. And your personal belongings, a billboard to express that love.
https://twitter.com/hannahx905/status/623978111567310848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
3. Which drove you to acquire some odd, but totally understandable, preferences.
https://twitter.com/Mindy_Bright_/status/623214363197833216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
4. At first, your parents were kind of perplexed.
https://twitter.com/mysignaturem0ve/status/623874907861073920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
5. Followed shortly by…
https://twitter.com/valerie_smith26/status/623237500669177856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
6. So you learned to channel all available funds appropriately.
getting money for your birthday and going straight to the tack store #growingupequestrian
— emily (@eford145) July 23, 2015
7. And, after a while, your parents just went with it.
https://twitter.com/ITweetHorseShit/status/623216244502560768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
8. While your friends were doing their nails, you were ruining yours.
https://twitter.com/izzycrider/status/633753379710173184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
9. You started working on your farmer’s tan before you even knew what a farmer’s tan was.
https://twitter.com/senakaysaniaaa/status/630058243906142208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
10. (It’s now a lighter shade of paste.)
Someone else probably posted this already but #GrowingUpEquestrian pic.twitter.com/Zdm1wgZbXc
— blaze jumper (@everytingrider) July 23, 2015
11. Sometimes that made things awkward and/or confusing.
https://twitter.com/taylorjenss_14/status/626632512589017088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
12. You OBSESSED over equitation.
https://twitter.com/dferrandino625/status/628754621935321089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
13. You got more excited about dressing up your horse’s Halloween costume than your own.
https://twitter.com/mozophia/status/624399033834967040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
14. You realized early in life that things almost never go to plan.
Horse goes perfect at home, goes to show and thinks it's acceptable to rear and not have brakes #growingupequestrian
— Alex (@alex_bavey) August 7, 2015
15. Because the pony hunters wait for no one.
https://twitter.com/LDaquino19/status/625861909535961088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
16. And anyway your “normal” friends just didn’t get it.
#GrowingUpEquestrian
Having to explain to friends that you're participating in horse shows not races pic.twitter.com/4Nf5Lyrdx3— Equestrian Struggles (@SaddleProblems) July 22, 2015
17. Or you.
#GrowingUpEquestrian when your school friends try and tell you that their sport interferes with their social life. pic.twitter.com/L0qePLC1v4
— Emma Andrew (@emmajane3113) July 21, 2015
18. Because seriously, there’s no excuse for bad equitation. Ever.
#GrowingUpEquestrian breaking the feet on all your Barbie dolls so they could ride with their heels down.
— Suitable Turnout (@SuitableTurnout) July 20, 2015
