What a beautiful journey you've gone through @m31 and thank you for sharing with us your precious experiences! And yes, enjoying the process just brings you so much fun and it's actually the most enjoyable part of each journey for me too!
You remind me of us go hiking for 5 hours to get to the top of a mountain, stay on the top for 20 minutes and enjoy the view, then spend another 5 hours to get back to the bottom! Wouldn't we want to just enjoy the best out of those 10 hours of hiking? When we are seeing all the flowers and butterflies along the way, seeing new plants and figure out how to jump over a rock?

Here wishing you good health to keep gardening cause it seems to be the thing that you're born to do! 😊