You are either the positive or the negative, the teacher or the pupil, jelal or jemal, leader or follower. In another aspect, horse represents mind and rider will; either the mind overshadows will or will directs and controls mind.
There are no alternatives. But when one keeps in Darood and in unity with God, the part that they may play in the world does not matter. They may assume a seeming negativity, but their full, honest and real negativity is only toward God and His Messengers. Toward all the rest of the world, inwardly they keep a positive atmosphere and attitude when they know, a negative when they do not know.