Heyyy, I just realised that today is my one year Mirai anniversary! 
Very fitting for this little retrospective.
Looking back, I don’t think I fully appreciate yet how much the practice of bonsai and Mirai with its amazing content and community helped me staying sane through what was a very challenging year for me. In 2019 in short order I lost the job I loved at a place where I had worked for 13 years, then my dad unexpectedly passed away and next Corona turned all our lives upside down.
During all of this, Bonsai and Mirai gave me something positive to focus on when sadness or anxiety threatened to overwhelm me. Even in the darkest moments, focusing on my trees managed to dispel bad thoughts, gave me something to look forward to and brought back joy to my life.
And on the bright side, unemployment and lock-down gave me an awful lot of time to care for my trees, improve my skills and expand my knowledge about bonsai considerably (I must have watched a large part of the Mirai library by now, several times in some cases. 
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And before you wonder, I am currently very happy that I recently found a great new job, even if this means that I’m no longer able to spend quite as much time working on my trees or watching Mirai. 
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