Food Envy

Food Envy... its a bugger isnt it! We've all done it. Spent ages deciding between two dishes on a restaurants menu.. "I want the fish... no the steak... no the fish". Eventually the waiter arrives and in a fluster you order fish, only to sit there thinking you may have made the wrong choice the whole time that you are awaiting for your meal to turn up. When it does, and the steak that your partner ordered rocks up looking juicy and delicious and the fish somewhat flaccid... the dreaded food envy clicks in and can run an entire evening out.

I remember whilst horse hunting I thought about this a lot. Well not the food but the other part. The have I made the wrong choice part, is there a better juicy warmblood just waiting to appear on the market. When I first saw the advert for Axel and then made a pretty fast decision on him I wondered if those feelings would kick off. If whilst browsing the sales adverts I would see better options, cuter options etc. We have kind of gone round in a circle now and back to my internet dating analogies; you know, married men and women browsing the web and single adverts and seeing better matches, cuter partners and so forth.

I can honestly and whole heartedly say, that I couldn't give a teeny tiny rats arse what else is on the market. My FB feed has stopped showing me sales horses (and as we know... facebook and the terrifying interweb knows all). Axel is my boy, my horse and my perfect match and those other unicorns on the market, they will find their person too.


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