[stephen_cagle]

Not to take anything from any other activity that someone embraces, but I imagine that for the majority of people in the developed world, taking a 1 hour walk every day would be the most "life changing" thing you could do.

[wewtyflakes]

What does that have to do with the article? It is not about 'the most life changing thing for everyone', it was what was life changing for her.

[stephen_cagle]

Nothing at all. Just a comment on the internet. Taking a walk AND and baking a pie is even better.

I'm just making a slight point that walking is probably the simplest most effective thing you can do to improve almost every aspect of your life.

[shermantanktop]

Sure, but it's random and unrelated to the discussion at hand.

I bake pies but I also like mushrooms and grilled cheese sandwiches. Every other individual here has random associations they can make.

In person, this is seen as commandeering a linear discussion to your personal topic and repeated violations get you uninvited from conversations for being selfish.

On the internet we can just ignore a thread, which is what I should have done here but I've typed this far so I'll go ahead and post it.

[sejje]

I don't think it's off-topic at all. The story is not as much about baking pies as it is doing something every day.

[whackernews]

Or just even think or look out of the window I feel like would do the world some good. Maybe I’m being negative I really don’t know at this point.

[ericmcer]

The point of the pies was the connections it forced her to make with people in her life and then ultimately strangers. Finding 365 people to give pies to is probably harder than baking them all.

Taking a walk alone would be missing the main point.

[danielmarkbruce]

Move to San Francisco!