chamomile

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Pronounced "kæməmil"


Large sheep the size of a small sheep! Likes tea, DIY, and nerd stuff. Sysadmin, release engineer and programmer by trade.


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Webster
@Webster

it's increasingly becoming my opinion that spending quality time outdoors is important for your health. that's your ecosystem. your environment is an extension of your own body. as humanity gets increasingly interested and trapped in its own constructions you have to reorient yourself with what's real.


chamomile
@chamomile

Especially in the years following the pandemic it's been so easy for me to fall into the trap of spending days staring at the same four walls and man does it mess me up. Especially in 2020 I had entire weeks where I didn't so much as step outside once. Sometimes I'd have these moments where my sense of the physical space I was in would suddenly snap into focus like a CRT degaussing and I'd have to take a minute to process how numb I'd become to everything around me.

Anyway, going on walks is some shit I used to think my mom was weird for until I got older and started doing it. It's pretty nice. If you don't and you're able, give it a try.


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in reply to @Webster's post:

thats right!!!!!!!!!!!! expanding the limits of the physical environment you experience also expands the sensory limits of the mind!!!!!!!!!!!! if you spend all day in a room eventually your mind will shrink down to the size of your four walls!!!!!!!!!! sorry for yelling im just really excited about this whole concept

In a pretty literal sense too

People who don't go outside (or at least look out a window into the distance) regularly, such as for example submariners, have a higher risk of developing nearsightedness

The Chinese government recently passed some laws aimed at reducing kids' after-school study time and getting them to go outside for at least an hour each day, you know it's serious when China is telling kids to study less

Touch grass is a mean spirited comment but the truth of it is honestly you must have perspective outside your own sphere, you must learn to absorb some degree of discomfort and newness to understand your fellow human and the world around you