If your child does not do well,
Will we worry about his/her future because of this,
Even accuse and dislike him/her?
Mika is such a 13-year-old girl with poor grades in school. As a social elite, her parents and school teachers can't figure out why such an excellent gene is so messed up in her studies. Still causing troubles.
Frustrated, lost, and unable to find his place in school, Mika came to his grandmother's house in the countryside to spend the summer vacation. Grandma opened a horse farm, usually trains horses, and teaches children who come here to participate in equestrian competitions.
Grandma was an Olympic equestrian champion when she was young, and she has an unusually deep affection for excellent horse racing. There is a horse named Oswin in the racecourse, which is the descendant of the Olympic champion horse, but Oswin has a weird personality and once accidentally injured Mika’s grandmother, so the grandmother thinks that Oswin is definitely not a champion horse, and plans to sell it .
Frustrated Mika and Oswain met, similar encounters, Mika developed a feeling of sympathy for Oswain, and also awakened the potential in himself that had not been discovered by everyone.
"Oswain the Horse" is a movie suitable for parents and children to watch. It uses the story of a horse to remind people of a common mistake, that is, to always look at a person or a thing in a single dimension.
In the long-term stressful and dull social life, it is easy for adults to lose enthusiasm, and it is difficult to discover the many possibilities behind a person or thing. We train children to learn to read, not only for grades, but also for them to gain wisdom and have more choices in life.
If there is only one choice left in life, then there is no choice; if our expectations for children are all focused on grades, then there will be no children.
Before the horse trainer in the movie teaches Micah to ride a horse, she has to practice the skills of mastering the body and handling things balance, rhythm, and coordination.
The reason why modern people are anxious sometimes is that we require things to happen in the way we want, while ignoring that people and things have their own rhythms, just like the alternation of the sun and the moon and the cycle of seasons in nature.
No matter how fast and convenient technology is, it cannot replace the natural rhythm of the growth and development of many things. Forcible acceleration will inevitably lead to disorder and chaos. Behind the slow to fast, countless problems have occurred.
Both humans and horses are creatures of nature, and their emotional lives are easy to converge and merge. In the process of riding a horse, children can always get rid of some emotional baggage and become happy and peaceful again.
Just by standing next to a horse, both the child and the horse can sense each other's heartbeat, and they are emotionally connected to each other. Its heartbeat is the same as everyone's, which may be calm or frightened. This is of great help in building children's empathy and compassion and better understanding of others.
Moreover, if a child can establish a relationship with such an animal that weighs dozens of times more than itself, he/she will no longer be afraid of this huge world, and it is easy to establish a relationship with anyone.
A child's natural spiritual experience around a horse at an early age will benefit him or her throughout his or her life. They develop spiritual independence, freedom, magnanimity and fearlessness, and will bloom their own beautiful flowers in the future.
May the horse enable children and adults to find the rhythm of life and call out more possibilities in life.
