Very interesting article Attila. I'm only 20, so if I stay with bonsai I just might live forever.
I think for a lot of older people that have retired, finding anything engaging to do is important. The best thing about bonsai is that you are never finished. You can paint a still life but after you are done the canvas, there's almost nothing else you can do with it. But with bonsai, they are never finished, unless dead so even if you have 20 perfectly trained trees, they still need to be watered, pruned, repotted, and maintained. I think that is the allure for those of us in the hobby young and old, growing bonsai is a never ending process. So growing bonsai is flirting with immortality