30 seconds of undeserved love

P Chang
2 min readApr 27, 2020
Author’s photo. Somewhere in Eastern Sierra April 2020

Horses are one of the most beautiful animals on earth.

Whenever I saw one, I would try my best to get a chance to touch its beautiful body.

So the other day, when I saw one dark brown horse was standing there eating grass on one side of a dirt road, I demanded the driver to stop and then I dashed out of the car.

The brown horse took a lazy look at me and lowered his head to carry on his lunch.

You must be a very very old horse, I murmured to myself.

I look around. From the far end of the meadow, there were two white horses that got curious and looked in my direction.

I thought our eyes locked for a few seconds.

All of a sudden, one of them started walking towards me.

Then he started the running with a graceful small trot and then seamlessly morphed into a masculine galloping. His white peppery body hair flying translucently under the Sierra sun.

He ran towards me as if I was his master.

I gasped and was frozen by the beauty and the excitement emotion shown in his moving body.

Then, when he got almost 10 yards away and when I was ready to open my arms to give him a gentle hug, he stopped and took a very hard look at me and his body turned into cold motion.

I was not his master after all.

He slowly turned away and that’s when I finally got a moment to take a photo of him.

For merely 30 seconds, he was my Prince Charming.

I thanked him for that.

(Note: in Chinese, the literal translation for Prince Charming is Prince White Horse so the proper title for this article in Chinese would be 白马王子的三十秒错爱)

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P Chang
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Written by P Chang

It all started with the 2020 SIP, when suddenly you became very reflective.

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