Take the walkpill.
>>24884802Life is too short for meaningless walks
It's really quite shocking that this even needs saying.
>[Wordsworth’s] legs were pointedly condemned by all female connoisseurs in legs; not that they were bad in any way which would force itself upon your notice—there was no absolute deformity about them; and undoubtedly they had been serviceable legs beyond the average standard of human requisition; for I calculate, upon good data, that with these identical legs Wordsworth must have traversed a distance of 175,000 to 180,000 English miles—a mode of exertion which, to him, stood in the stead of alcohol and other stimulants whatsoever to animal spirits; to which, indeed, he was indebted for a life of unclouded happiness, and we for much of what is most excellent in his writings.https://shs.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2010-1-page-18?lang=en
>>24884802I already am. Early morning and late evenings are the best times to go out, especially in the autumn/winter when there's less normalcritters out. Just a few days ago in the morning I was out and spotted a swan sleep among some reeds, reminded me of the cover to picrel.Being a middle-aged loser with no attachments or schedule has its perks.
>>24884822Is picrel any good? Never read it. Looks like there's an expanded version being published in a few months with some additional essays. Though it's a new translation so I don't know if that'll be good or not.
>>24884802Add Nietzsche to the essential walkpill list.>I would walk for six or eight hours a day, composing thoughts that I would later jot down on paper.>We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors — walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful.>What my foot demands in the first place from music is that ecstasy which lies in good walking.>Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement — in which the muscles do not also revel… Sitting still… is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.
>>24884825Absolutely, it even pushed me to check out more of Tanizaki's works.
>>24884831Cool. I might wait for that new edition and try it then.
>>24884806Fat
>>24884802I craft some of my best writing on walks. On a hike I'll work a section over and over and until it looks and feels just right.
>>24884802Don't forget the OG
>>24884802I work in an office all day and decided to just go to my local park and lift rocks instead of a gym. I have to believe that somehow interacting with the outside world will seep into my brain and affect my soul and thinking in the positive.
>>24884802I prefer cycling
Sometimes you fags are alright.
>>24884806The life of a fish is too short for it to swim.
>>24884802Cioran was a fellow nightwalker >Have you met other insomniacs through the years who suffered like that?>Not to that degree, no. Perhaps in a lunatic asylum one might. But I wasn’t crazy at all, that’s what’s interesting. What I often liked to do, I should say, was go for walks at night. Curiously enough, I did that in Paris as well, until about ten years ago. Very often, in the middle of the night, if I couldn’t sleep, I’d get up and go walking through Paris for two or three hours. Now it’s become too dangerous to just go out for a walk like that at four in the morning. I liked to go all over the place. I’d wait till people were going to work, and then I’d come home and sleep a little. But I was doing better by then.
>>24884806This! How are these meandering strolls contributing to the GDP? Anons in here need to lock the fuck in.
>>24885127All cyclists deserve to die in a ditch.
