It's also a time to relax our mind and discover ourselves
when we stroll around unplanned and without any
specific purpose.
Could somebody tell me why the writer used ourselves instead of us? I think ourselves is a reflexive pronoun that should reflect back on a subject. But I see no subject here that means the same thing as ourselves.
Best Answer
The "subject" that ourselves references is implied in the sentence.
We could write the idea this way
We can sometimes leave out parts of a sentence that are "needed", because our listener can infer or understand that those parts are "there".
The rules that describe when and how we can do this are complex. The relevant grammar topics include "linguistic ellipsis" and "substitution".
As I was reminded in the Language Overflow chatroom, these pronouns are not always used reflexively. Consider She did it herself. Notice that she didn't do anything to herself. Some linguists call these emphatic pronouns.