re: ‘Silent Walking’ trend has Gen Zers leaving iPhones at home to go for walks

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“And at first I was like f**k no, my anxiety could never – which is probably what you’re thinking – but something within me was like let me just try it.”

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I think this is a big part of the problem of why some people always say "just suck it up" when it comes to anxiety. Clinical anxiety is a very real and scary condition. Using "my anxiety" (likely in a self diagnosed setting) as an excuse for everything makes people with actual clinical anxiety not get taken seriously.

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“And at first I was like f**k no, my anxiety could never – which is probably what you’re thinking – but something within me was like let me just try it.” Maio said the first two minutes of her walk were “mayhem”, until she hit a “flow state”, when “suddenly you can … hear yourself.”

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fricking Zoomers are so fricking over the top about everything. Hyperbole is too small a word to describe it.

A walk without a phone is “mayhem” until you hit your “flow state”. Go frick yourself you pretentious baby in an adults body.

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You’re simply objecting to the framing.

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Thats exactly what he said.

Its mundane, has occurred for thousands of years, Zoomers just think they discovered it.

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You’re simply objecting to the framing

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You are right because the framing is still over the top look at me I have “anxiety” and was able to go for a walk without my phone Yay me!! It’s so stupid. Real anxiety are the people working two jobs to hopefully keep their kids fed with a roof over their head.

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Thats exactly what he said.

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No, it isn’t. See: above.

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I guess I just don’t get it. I have a normal 25 year old son and a normal 20 year old daughter. They are well rounded people that had well rounded childhoods. I do agree that the parents shoulder a lot of blame for these adult children that “I can’t even” because of letting electronics raise them. Eventually though they will have to grow up or real life will beat the shite out of them.

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They will. Or they won’t and society will collapse

I would just be genuinely surprised to see it be the latter.

It is hilarious how they brag about it like it’s some big accomplishment that I’m setting my phone down

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It is hilarious how they brag about it like it’s some big accomplishment that I’m setting my phone down

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not really a new thing. remember when everyone on here sucked their own dicks for deleting facebook?

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I hope these silent walks end at the employment office.

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The human brain is a marvelous engine at filling the space given to it. Crawl into the brain of every single person and every one of them believes they are busy, stressed, etc, etc. Does the brain surgeon have a different kind of stress than the kid being gossiped about at school? Of course. Does the brain treat them differently. No, no it does not.

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I don’t disagree with that. The issue I have is the younger generation and some older attention whores that feel the need to tell the world about the mundane task they accomplished in spite of the “anxiety” caused by not having their phone. It’s counter productive because it makes the person come across as a self centered douche. Good for you, you went for a walk now shut up about it.