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The Cowboy Way
By Charly Gullett
The Cowboy Way
Being a Cowboy is doing the right thing; common
wisdom born of simple virtues and strong ideals. Above all, it is a strict
adherence to honesty even when it is not in our best interests.
It is having an inherent sense of justice in a
world where the cards are often stacked against us. We try to hold enough
common sense to recognize the value of a lost cause and the cost of lost
values. Generally speaking, we are quietly reserved in all things except
freedom, fresh air and Saturday night. We have a keen eye for a good
horse, a good gun, and a good Cowgirl. Constant to friends, we are more so
when friends need us, less so when they don't. Familiar with hard work we
also know hard knocks and hard roads. Often given to tears when lesser
individuals would display indifference; we are as well given to joy in a
few places others would only find disdain. We enjoy plain living, not
because we relish doing without, but because we have discovered the
treasures within. And, finally, we have that elusive emotion called
courage which is, at worst, a badly directed sense of conceit and, at
best, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
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