Taking a big walk

You have to be taking a big walk, and it has to be by yourself.

The idea of the “hot girl walk” was so weird because I feel like it commodified and trendified spending time with yourself in a way that felt really distasteful! To me, a big walk is not about being hot, it’s about feeling my body move, breathing fresh air and noticing little things. I don’t think it’s weird to say that if you do your big walk when it’s evening, you can have a great time looking into houses as you pass. Whatever, see what they’ve got going on! If you’re walking during the day, you can notice a lot of really weird or maybe even sweet things. I recently have been noticing a lot of animals in windows and things left on the sidewalk. Interesting stuff.

The other thing about “hot girl walk” is that it was framed in my opinion as exercise. Yes taking a walk is exercise, but I don’t recommend putting on a little workout outfit for this one. I recommend having something loose so you can kind of glide around, but really I love to wear something interesting as long as it’s comfortable because my walk is going to be a few hours. It’s also ok to make your walk be about going places, which is why I don’t think framing it as a workout is for me. I for example, love to select places to stop and explore on my route map. A great walk can result in me having new items!!!!! Including interesting sticks or items I have purchased.

I started doing my walks when I lived in Japan. In Kobe, you can walk from the top of a mountain, through neighborhoods, through a city, and all the way to the ocean. That’s the ideal walk because it has all terrains, but walks can be anywhere as long as you’re noticing things.

A lot of people think you can’t be listening to music and are too “no distractions”-pilled to understand that sometimes you can really benefit from listening to music and kind of letting the groove inform how you move. Go ahead and add a little shimmy to your step!! Here is my personal Big Walk playlist.

Anyway I highly recommend just taking a big walk by yourself. A lot of people are tickled to hear about a walk too, so you can pleasantly know that you can tell people about what you saw on your walk after.