Cowboy – Daily Object Writing – Oct 13
Oct 12th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingHe lives a pedal to the metal life, driving a utility that trails whipping antennas, plastered with stickers belittling women in every possible way. On the road he’s a cowboy- ignoring the speed limit, weaving in and out of traffic on the highway without a care. He lives the same way at the rodeo, riding a bull or a horse with the same abandon, but he’s good. The best. No conception of losing or losers, of weakness or fear or wimpy behaviour almost pure instinct, which is why he gets into trouble with the girls. Treats ‘em too rough, expects them to do his will, doesn’t think that hard about consequences. One day the fist of the law will pick him up by the scruff of the neck and shake him harder than a bucking bronco – will he see sense then – will it be shaken into him?
Really he just wants the simple life, herding cattle across open plains in the Northern Territory – sitting round a campfire at night shooting the breeze with his cow cocky mates. He wasn’t looking for attention but he found it. He has the knack of staying on, hanging on. Tenacity rides the bull. But he loves the outdoors, staring up into the milky way with its painted white dots. Sometimes he dreams of flying off into space, riding a rocket like a bucking colt, traveling to distant galaxies Riding the joystick like a wild horse, no one else around to bother him, just some strange tether back to mission control, so many lives ago. Yep, deep in his heart he’s happier alone, none of this circus that he’s now involved in, just one more ride he tells himself, one more dice with death then it’s back to the wilds, away from all this bullshit.
This might give you a little more inspiration — http://www.ahamoment.com/vote/jeremy — a very short video about the “aha moment” of one young man with a passion for rodeo. I think you’ll enjoy it. If you do, click to vote for him and his story might be used as an aha moment TV commercial. Would be nice to see rodeo get a little more national exposure.
Thanks,
jack@ahamoment.com