【Mountain Day】Reasons to be grateful for mountains, and the best benefits♨️

Hello! It's Jade!😎✨

How is everyone spending their Obon holiday this week?😄
It's fine to use up all your energy serving your family‼️
It's also fine to spend it relaxing in an air-conditioned room to recharge your spirits‼️
I hope you have a memorable holiday🍉

Well, August 11th was "Mountain Day".

You might be tempted to ask, "When did 'Mountain Day' start anyway!?" but I looked it up and it was enacted in 2016😅

Did you know? (Did you remember?🤣)

"It was created because there's a 'Marine Day,' right?" That's a common assumption, but when I looked into it, I found out that since about 70% of Japan's land is mountainous, it's an important holiday unique to Japan for expressing gratitude for the "blessings of the mountains" that are essential to our survival😅

By the way, it seems it was originally planned to be "August 12th" to make it easier to connect with the Obon holiday🤔

Apparently, there was a history of it being flexibly changed to the "11th" out of consideration for historical context (the JAL plane crash, and the fact that the crash site was a mountain), and I thought that kind of consideration is very Japanese and nice😊

Also, they say there's a visual root to it too, where the "eight" (八) looks like the shape of a mountain and the "11" looks like trees standing in a row😮🏔️🌲🌲

You might not be aware of it usually, but there are these "blessings of the mountains" in our daily lives!

• A giant natural filter
  It purifies rainwater over a long period of time underground, creating the "delicious water" we drink every day☝️🥛 It really is a giant "filtration system"
  

• The ultimate mental detox
  The negative ions from waterfalls and the scent of trees are a natural therapy that resets a mind strained by business✨🌲 I also love the sound of trees rustling in the wind😁
  

• Ultimate relaxation
  "Hot springs"♨️ that we can enjoy precisely because we are a volcanic country. This is also the best gift that mountains bring us! I love them! Hot springs😁✨ I want to go to a snow-viewing hot spring this coming winter⛄❄️

…So, I've been passionately talking about the greatness of mountains up to this point, but I don't have the physical strength to climb a mountain on my own feet in this intense heat🤣

I'll write an article about it somewhere, but there was a time when I used to climb Mt. Fuji, you know!😁✨

Now, I'll offer my heartfelt gratitude by driving through mountain roads in a cool, comfortable car and soaking slowly in the "hot springs" that are the bounty of the mountains!🙇‍♂️💦　　🤣

…That said, I am currently sprinting (climbing) up the steep mountain known as 'work' that towers before me, and I just sent out a few instructions for after the break via chat a moment ago 😅
(Oh, of course, they are set to be delivered on the morning of August 17th, when the break is over. I hate showing off that I'm working on holidays or late at night 🤣🤣)

As the saying 'overcoming a mountain' goes, the mountain of work is quite steep, but... I will use the sense of accomplishment I feel when I reach the summit as a springboard to keep pushing forward 👍

I hope you all have a wonderful and refreshing time while feeling the blessings of the mountains too ✨

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