Germany has a word for the philosophy of walking for its own sake.
๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฎ๐ป๐ด. ๐ฉ๐ช
Not exercise. Not a commute.
A deliberate choice to move through the world slowly โ no destination, no fitness goal, no podcast in your ears.
Germans take this seriously. On any given Sunday you will find families, couples, and solitary wanderers moving through forests and parks with no particular place to be.
Immanuel Kant took the same walk at the same time every single day in Kรถnigsberg. His neighbours were said to set their clocks by him.
Nietzsche went further.
๐๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต.
Only thoughts reached by walking have value.
Germany built a culture around this.
And a word for it.
Go for one today. ๐ฉ๐ช
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฆ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ ๐ฉ๐ช