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Quiet Walking

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ChellyT · 08/12/2023 01:50

FFS please don't pounce on me being out of touch or whatever BUT I recently heard of this 'new trend' of quiet walking without headphones in, without listening to music, without listening to a podcasts or audio book or chatting on the phone just walking... And here I go 'Back in my day it was called going for a walk'

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UncleHerbie · 08/12/2023 09:23

“Guerilla knitting” is another one, ie knitting in public or wherever one might be became a trend in the early 00s, including when a skein of knitters taking afternoon tea at The Savoy were subsequently kicked out. Maybe some business types were offended by the cacophony of needles … except I’ve knitted/crocheted in public since forever ago, as did women all over the place when I was a child

Alltheprettyseahorses · 08/12/2023 09:11

Influencers have a lot to answer for. Although the quiet walking trend is better than what one influencer I waste time watching did, she went for a walk in a lovely autumn forest full of beautiful birdsong and rustling leaves and suchlike - while listening to a blimming mindfulness app of all things!

RampantIvy · 08/12/2023 09:03

The trend for labelling everyday stuff is getting ridiculous:

Quiet walking
Attachment parenting
Gentle parenting
Baby led weaning
Wild swimming

tanstaafl · 08/12/2023 09:02

Next, extreme quiet walking.
leaving your phone on silent while you walk.

OneMiniMincePieTooFar · 08/12/2023 09:01

I feel like quiet walking might the name giving to something you rarely do. If you're out twice a day, every day, in all weathers - you stop giving it a fancy name and just get on and do it Grin

But I also think older people have been saying "Honestly, why do so many young people think they invented something that the rest of us have been doing for years?" for years - presumably causing some kind of infinite loop in which those young people grow up, wonder why the current youth keep thinking they are inventing things whilst, themsleves, making the same observation their elders did before them. Grin

Fromage · 08/12/2023 08:57

Fgs.

Just fgs.

ItAintGonnaGoDownEasyIfItAintCheezy · 08/12/2023 08:56

StoorieHoose · 08/12/2023 07:14

I saw one the other day - a hack to help dry your washing in winter with a little known function on your washing machine.

Said hack was use the spin function to do an extra spin !!!

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Tessisme · 08/12/2023 08:55

PuffPastryFluff · 08/12/2023 08:45

This feels up there with 'uncooked toast'.

😅😅 DS2 would love that one. He hates toast and usually just has bread and butter.

PuffPastryFluff · 08/12/2023 08:45

This feels up there with 'uncooked toast'.

mondaytosunday · 08/12/2023 08:39

I walk my dogs every day and the amount of people walking around chatting on phones! I wonder if they are taking in the beauty around them. But each to their own. I've never listened to music or podcasts while walking, partially because it's time to think, partially it's because people do tend to stop and chat a bit when you have a dog. Also I want to listen out for that jogger coming up behind me etc.

StoorieHoose · 08/12/2023 08:30

MagpiePi · 08/12/2023 08:26

How will I tell if I’m quiet walking or mindful walking?

If you are admiring nature and giving thanks it's mindful walking

If you are making up scenarios in your head about things that will never happen it's quiet quiet walking

MagpiePi · 08/12/2023 08:26

How will I tell if I’m quiet walking or mindful walking?

Tessisme · 08/12/2023 08:06

My lovely neighbour posted on our local Facebook page a while back suggesting that people should try going headphones free and interact with all the seasonally changing sights and sounds in our area. It was lighthearted and well meant. Possibly directed at me in my giant headphones as I pause my audiobook to say hello and pet her dogs🤣 Anyway, I must tell her there's now a name for it.

MumblesParty · 08/12/2023 07:53

MsClarice · 08/12/2023 07:22

It's only a thing if there's an App, which you pay for.

😂

StoorieHoose · 08/12/2023 07:24

FelicityBeedle · 08/12/2023 04:07

But people aren’t saying they invented it, there saying it’s not the norm for them but it’s something worth trying? And because it’s new to them, they’ve given it a name.

Imagine being so terminally online that you give walking 'a name'.

fartyklart · 08/12/2023 07:23

If it makes the kids try it, and maybe even decide to do it most of the time as they enjoy it, then I'm all for it!

MrsClatterbuck · 08/12/2023 07:23

TheSuggestedAmendment · 08/12/2023 05:44

Cue a million articles about Quiet Walking: this year’s Wild Swimming.

Yes re the wild swimming. Near us there are people who have been swimming almost daily in the sea for donkeys years. One is now in their nineties.

YungWarthog · 08/12/2023 07:22

I think it’s because people are so used to having their phones when walking or running, listening to podcasts/music/audiobooks or having a conversation or scrolling SM that they don’t take in their surroundings and appreciate nature etc.
Taking a walk is in a green space is often recommended to lift your mood but it won’t have as much effect if you don’t pay attention to your environment due to being distracted by your phone. So yes, it probably is a new thing for the younger generation, who cannot function without a phone!

MsClarice · 08/12/2023 07:22

It's only a thing if there's an App, which you pay for.

ANightingale · 08/12/2023 07:21

FelicityBeedle · 08/12/2023 04:07

But people aren’t saying they invented it, there saying it’s not the norm for them but it’s something worth trying? And because it’s new to them, they’ve given it a name.

I've never driven a car - I wonder if I should invent 'driving'?😃

ANightingale · 08/12/2023 07:19

What? That's how I always walk anyway. I don't need noise constantly dinning in my ears or a phone getting in the way.

MargaretThursday · 08/12/2023 07:16

No doubt announced with a headline along the lines of:
"Influencer explains how she relaxes on a walk and the Internet is AMAZED"

StoorieHoose · 08/12/2023 07:14

HoHoHoliday · 08/12/2023 01:54

That's not a new trend, that's just... walking.
What is it with people these days, thinking they are inventing everything all over again. Argh! It drives me mad.
See also - so-called "hacks" on social media. I see them and think, that's not a hack, that's just how people do it, how people have done it for decades.

I saw one the other day - a hack to help dry your washing in winter with a little known function on your washing machine.

Said hack was use the spin function to do an extra spin !!!

TheSuggestedAmendment · 08/12/2023 05:44

Cue a million articles about Quiet Walking: this year’s Wild Swimming.

Glittertwins · 08/12/2023 05:42

Probably dreamt up by another online person desperately trying to put a label on a common everyday occurrence in a bid for popularity.

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