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Is anyone else just not outdoorsy/low energy

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Notadame · 18/11/2025 09:39

I see so many people saying they love hiking, being outside in nature etc etc. I just cannot relate. I would love to feel like that but I simply don't. I like being indoors, or maybe on a warm day in my garden where I can pop in and out to the kettle and so on.

I can't imagine being the type of person who would enjoy donning my wet weather gear and trudging out in the woods in the pissing rain for instance.

I force myself to go out because it's good for my health (and for my kids), but I can't say it ever makes me happier than sitting at home with a tea and a book would.

Anyone else?? I seem to be surrounded by outdoorsy types 🤣

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Notadame · 20/11/2025 17:37

SeaAndStars · 20/11/2025 17:36

I love walking so am definitely biased but I always see something different on even my most routine walks. Someone wearing a great outfit, a squirrel running along a fence or I bump into someone for a chat. Perhaps the dog will do something funny, a neighbour might have got a new car. The weather's never exactly the same, nature changes all the time.

I can't say that my neighbour's new car is something that would spur me into wanting to leave the house.

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SeaAndStars · 20/11/2025 17:42

Notadame · 20/11/2025 17:37

I can't say that my neighbour's new car is something that would spur me into wanting to leave the house.

I get that, me neither, but it was only an example (in reply to another poster) that there is always something new. Nothing ever stays the same.

A new car perhaps not very interesting, nor a very good example - but daffodils coming up, birds singing, Christmas lights going up - that's all lovely uplifting stuff.

RampantIvy · 20/11/2025 17:47

SeaAndStars · 20/11/2025 17:42

I get that, me neither, but it was only an example (in reply to another poster) that there is always something new. Nothing ever stays the same.

A new car perhaps not very interesting, nor a very good example - but daffodils coming up, birds singing, Christmas lights going up - that's all lovely uplifting stuff.

One of my favourite memories was seeing a lamb being born while out for a spring walk a few years ago. The farmer was there to oversee things.

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