How I destress when I can't go for a walk

One of the best ways to calm my mind when it's racing is to go for a walk. An even better way to do it is go on a walk somewhere I've never been. I like daydream while scenery comes into view and  then fades away, and as much as I like natural landscapes, I very much enjoy urban settings, my eye is drawn to lived-in places, old buildings, messy balconies, interesting doors, colourful curtains peeking through windows. 

But that's really inconvenient method of calming down when my mind is running 25 tabs just before I wanna sleep, it's freezing outside and I'm in a small town that I know like the back of my hand.
So I watch videos of walks, or car ride or bike rides. But these videos are not the high energy travel vlogs where the youtuber is all excited and quirky and explaining stuff. (Not that there's anything wrong with those) Nope, the type of videos I like to watch is just "guy walking while holding a camera". There's no music background, just the actual noise of the street or hum of the car if he's drivin. 

I specifically watch this one channel B&A Been Here that does these type of videos in Spain. Who is B&A? I don't fucking know. Is it multiple people or just one person? No idea. There's a guy giving you a bit of context at the start of the video and then it's just a walk...or a car ride...or a bike ride....one video he fell off his bike...that was as much excitement as you get from this.. Calms me down so much. 


 

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  1. Sergiu20 May 2025 at 12:13

    This is hilarious because I do similar things. Whenever I feel overwhelmed and need to get away, I sometimes watch videos of people (someone's grandparents) cooking something in a village in Azerbaijan or just "amateur videos" of people visiting places Romania or some peaceful place in some country Asia. Most of these really are just "raw videos" without any music or even talking, just the simple sounds of real life.

    I once watched a video of this French baker waking up at night to bake stuff for his bakery in Japan. It was so interesting seeing him prepare everything, bake it and even put it on shelves. His employee showed up later in the morning to help with it and sell stuff to the customers. I assume that the baker goes home at noon and probably sleeps and wakes up later in the evening and starts over. It sounds like such a difficult life, but I think he gets more fulfillment out of it than people do in office jobs knowing that he is waking up to create something people want to buy and eat.

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