
I am also a much more guarded fan than I used to be, primarily because I had my heart broken more than a couple of times.
However, I am glad for Mirai because of the work she put in and what she has achieved for herself in practice. For athletes, abilities are fleeting. An athlete commented after winning his last championship then retiring, "That's it. This is the best shape of my life. I will never be any better than this, and it will be gone in two weeks." So I am glad for Mirai that she climbed to the top of the highest mountain to see the view for herself. To me, if we see the 3A in competition, it is like her having climbed to the top of the highest mountain and brought a camera so she could share pictures with us, but if she does not have a camera she still did go to the top and see the view, which is more than almost anybody will ever do.