This week for me was more of a worrying weekend with all the worries on our horses. Have you ever seen a person drunk? Or how crazy they get when there out of their mind? That’s the feeling my family have been having for our horses. Yes, somehow or someway horses seem to get drunk without the need of alcohol. The substance that seems to get them foolish is a plant that has dark green leaves and purple circular cottons in the middle; the Navajo people call it na’adii (na-a-di). It affects all kinds of animals not just horses. For the week, our horses got into the plant, so they were our main priority.
Sometimes the actions of others help teach us lessons and never to do it at all. The week was dealing with building more corrals to keep them contained from doing more stupid stuff. When you look at the horses that graze out in the pasture, you can tell if there drunk by their actions: they spook so easily, the friendliest horses are now scared of you and they don’t walk straight. The thing we were scared of was if the horses spooked they would run into something, cutting themselves open. Then they could walk into anything like trees were they could go into the branches, killing themselves. Just watching the horses go all crazy and stagger around, reminded me of all the drunks in town that get effected by alcohol.
In my head all I thought about alcohol is, “Dang this can really mess you up or at least make you act dumb in front of people.” The plant that horses eat usually grows out in the winter where all the grasses are dead making the only option for horses to eat is the deadly plant. Similar in life when alcohol persuades you in when there is no other option or at least at your vulnerable points. When looking at the horses they remind me of people when alcohol brings them at their lowest point. Even sometimes leading them into the wrong direction by killing the person. To this point it scares me and makes me realize how alcohol plays a similar role to the plants by destroying lives. Well that’s how my week went with all these worries so never try alcohol.