Listening to music, drinking beer, smoking etc... Although it probably makes me look like a hobo or doomer lmao but I literally give zero fucks.
It's a good way to get fresh air and be in nature and think about stuff, especially nice at sunset in summer.
It's a good cope.
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Based that you are back.
I do the same. I go into the woods around the place where I live and sometimes I sit just on a bench.
Going into nature is a very good cope indeed. Learning about it is also based because you then have access to a world that most normalfags have no entrance into. Something only for yourself.
The mountains are even more based, you can see life changing there within a few meters in drastic degrees that would normally take hundreds of kilometers (from forest to grassland to stony fields) and then when you are finally at the summit cross wind, physical stress, sweat, incredible views and many more factors come together to finally purify you of all negative feelings for a few moments, finally some catharsis. Standing in the mountain pines often within the rhododendron bloom at the seemingly top of the world is incredible.
And the moors are full of incredibly aesthetic views too, seeing the sundew, the sphagnum, the various reptiles and the moor pines together with the sun and the snowy tops of the mountains in the background is an incredible feeling.
The only good moments I had were in nature, particularly in the mountains and in the moors. No matter how shitty my life becomes I will always take peace in knowing that this is what they can and never will take from me, that I had all these moments there that most people never experience and that I will take these memories with me to wherever fate might one day bring me. If I ever fathered a child I would teach him to appreciate the same beauty/calmness that I experienced there.
Nature gives me the only reson to keep on going. I love to make plans for new hiking routes in the hope to find an animal or plant or view or historical sight that I never saw before.
In this spring I discovered a new path into the mountains at one of my favorite lakes, there I learned about the existence of threatened orchids (like the Lady's slipper) and birds there, I explored everything for a few hours and I realized that if I had roped I would have denied myself these experiences.
This was the epiphany that made me to some degree appreciate life again, I hope that everyone here will have something that he will one day call the love of his life and for me the mountains, moors, forests and the plants/animals there are it. My only constant source of peace and joy in this modern world.
