Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours agoIf listening to birds chirping and wind blowing through trees while you’re out for a walk is “no stimuli” you have a problem.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Then so does most everyone. It’s one thing to be “out for a walk” with the purpose of a walk, like in the forest or a park, but it’s a whole other thing to be walking for groceries and day after day just zoning out into the same things over and over. That’s insanity.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
That’s, erm, life m8.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I’m sorry for you if that’s what life is to you, it’s no wonder mental health issues are common amongst folks these days, the dead eyes and blank stares drooling off into nothingness, eyes wide open, yet seeing nothing, “living in the moment”, yet feeling dead inside. I pity you, little man.
The world is there to be discovered, you just need agency to go and get it, everything is literally at your fingertips, arts, history, geography, literature, science, philosophy, film, games etc.
Music is one way to engage with the arts even while your other senses must be occupied with the chores on procurement of resources that our meat shells sadly require for the foreseeable future.
But the good news is, It’s why we as a species invented entertainment at all.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Part of the world is the outside, without external stimulus of music or a screen.
I can consume all those things without music playing steadily in my ears, and I would venture to say I prefer to enjoy arts, history, geography, literature, science, philosophy, film, games etc. without steady noise being pumped into my skull. Sometimes I do it while conversing with another person or several people.
At other times, I can listen to music. But I don’t complain that life has lost its lustre because my phone can’t play my music!