The Silent Struggle of Modern Younger Men
How Fear, Financial Pressure, and Uncertainty Affect Love, Relationships, and Sexual Confidence in the Younger Generation of Men
We live in a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain world. And as I observe the younger generation, particularly young men in countries such as the United States and Canada, I find myself thinking about a problem that is not always visible from the outside.
Many young men seem to be struggling with something deeper than financial difficulties, career uncertainty, or the challenges of finding a partner.
They are struggling with the feeling that they are not enough.
Not successful enough. Not financially secure enough. Not experienced enough. Not ready enough to build a future with someone they love.
And perhaps the most troubling part is that many of them do not recognize how deeply these fears may be affecting their emotional well-being, their relationships, and sometimes even their sexual confidence.
I am not speaking about all young men. I am reflecting on a pattern that I increasingly notice in modern society.
A young man may sincerely want to love a woman, care for her, share his achievements with her, and build a family.
He may not be afraid of responsibility at all.
He may be afraid that he will not be able to fulfill that responsibility.
And this is where a troubling psychological process can begin.
A young man begins by measuring his own worth through financial success. Then, almost without realizing it, he starts measuring women by the same standards, asking himself what kind of woman he can afford and whether he can meet her expectations.
Instead of listening to his feelings and getting to know another human being, he may begin choosing relationships based on fear, assumptions, and financial calculations.
And when emotional or sexual intimacy does not develop naturally, he may interpret the experience as yet another confirmation that he is not good enough.
In this process, he risks losing touch not only with women, but with his own feelings, desires, and understanding of love.
How did we arrive at a point where something as natural and beautiful as falling in love can become another source of anxiety and self-doubt?
I believe several aspects of modern life are contributing to this situation.
And perhaps understanding them is the first step toward changing it.
When a Child Learns to Distrust Love
Our understanding of relationships begins long before we experience romantic love ourselves.
It begins in childhood, in the atmosphere of our family, in the way our parents communicate, and in the way they treat each other.
Not every child grows up watching a loving relationship between a mother and father. Many grow up in single-parent families, and many experience their parents’ divorce.
There is nothing wrong with growing up with one parent. A loving mother or father can raise a child with strong values, emotional maturity, and a healthy understanding of relationships.
The deeper problem often begins when parents turn their unresolved conflicts against each other and involve their children in those conflicts.
Often, during a divorce, a couple goes through a painful separation filled with resentment, accusations, and attempts to prove who was right and who was wrong.
Unfortunately, children often become unwilling participants in these battles.
Consider a boy who repeatedly hears his father criticizing his mother, blaming her for everything that went wrong, or portraying her as dishonest, selfish, or untrustworthy.
The boy may deeply love his mother. He may know her as a caring, devoted woman who has always been there for him.
Yet somewhere in his mind, questions may begin to appear.
What if my father is right?
What if women really cannot be trusted?
What if relationships eventually become battles?
What if the woman I love one day turns against me?
Even when he consciously rejects these ideas, repeated negative messages can influence the way he understands relationships.
And the same problem exists when mothers speak destructively about fathers. Girls and boys alike can be affected by the emotional conflicts of their parents.
But here, I want to focus particularly on young men.
You may stop loving your former partner, but you should never forget that this person is still the mother or father of your child.
A father does not need to remain married to the mother of his son to treat her with dignity. She is the woman who brought their child into the world, and the way he speaks about her can influence how that child learns to understand women and love.
Of course, respect does not require hiding abuse or pretending that harmful behavior never occurred. Children deserve age-appropriate honesty and protection. But they should not be made responsible for their parents’ anger or asked to take sides in adult conflicts.
A marriage may end.
The responsibility to protect a child’s emotional well-being does not.
A Divorce Story on Social Media Is Not the Story of a Marriage
Today, the influence of family experiences is often reinforced by another powerful force: social media.
A young man opens Instagram, YouTube, or another platform and encounters stories about relationships that ended badly.
A wealthy businessman loses millions in a divorce.
A woman receives a large financial settlement.
A successful man claims that his former wife took everything he worked for.
These stories spread quickly because they provoke strong emotions.
But what do we actually know about these marriages?
Usually, very little.
We do not know what happened behind closed doors. We do not know how the couple treated each other over the years. We do not know whether there was emotional abuse, betrayal, manipulation, mutual support, or years of shared effort.
We may not know what each person contributed to the family or to the financial success that is now being divided.
We often do not even know whether the story being shared is accurate.
Yet a young man reading these headlines may begin to form a conclusion:
Women are dangerous. Women want money. Marriage is a financial risk.
But a divorce story is not the story of a marriage.
And there is another side to these situations that is rarely discussed.
Suppose a wealthy older man chooses a much younger woman, placing great importance on her beauty and youth. Perhaps financial security is part of what attracts her to him.
If that relationship later ends in disappointment, is it reasonable to blame all women?
Should he not also examine his own expectations, motivations, and choices?
This does not excuse dishonesty, betrayal, or exploitation by either partner.
It simply reminds us that relationships involve two human beings, each bringing their own desires, values, decisions, and responsibilities.
A few dramatic headlines cannot explain the complexity of an entire marriage.
Yet repeated exposure to such stories can create the impression that distrust is wisdom and that emotional distance is the safest way to live.
And this is where the real danger begins.
We start allowing the failures of strangers to shape our expectations of people we have not even met.
The Fear of Not Being Enough
Perhaps one of the greatest psychological pressures facing young men today is the growing belief that their personal value depends on their financial success.
This pressure is especially visible in consumer-oriented societies such as the United States and Canada, but it extends to other countries as well.
We live in a culture that constantly encourages us to want more.
A newer phone. A better computer. A more expensive car. A bigger home. More entertainment. More travel. More possessions.
And as soon as we achieve one goal, another appears.
There is always something newer, bigger, faster, or more impressive.
At the same time, the cost of living has become a serious concern for many young adults. Housing, education, transportation, food, and the ordinary expenses of building an independent life can place enormous pressure on their finances.
Social media adds another layer.
Young people constantly see images of luxurious lifestyles, beautiful women, expensive vacations, successful entrepreneurs, and people who appear to have achieved extraordinary wealth at a very young age.
What they rarely see are the failures, sacrifices, family support, debt, luck, or years of work that may exist behind those images.
The result can be a painful contradiction.
On one side, a constant feeling that life is becoming more dangerous and uncertain. On the other, a constant feeling of personal inadequacy.
A young man may begin to believe that he must achieve financial success before he deserves a loving relationship.
He must earn more money, own a home, establish a successful career, and be able to provide a certain lifestyle.
Only then, he believes, will he be ready to find a woman and create a family.
But who decided that love must wait until financial success has been achieved?
And what does success actually mean?
For one man, success may mean building a large business and earning millions.
For another, it may mean having meaningful work, a modest home, enough money to live comfortably, and time to spend with the people he loves.
Both can experience fulfilling lives. Both can love deeply. Both can be wonderful partners.
The problem begins when society convinces a man that his worth is measured primarily by what he earns rather than by who he is.
And while listening to what society considers important and successful, he may gradually stop asking himself the most essential question: What is truly valuable to me?
What does he actually want from life? What brings him joy? What kind of future would he choose if he were not constantly trying to meet other people’s expectations?
When these questions remain unanswered, two fears can begin to reinforce each other.
The first is the fear of being used.
What if she only wants me for my money?
The second is the fear of not being enough.
What if I cannot give her the life she expects?
Notice the contradiction.
He is afraid that a woman might love him only for his money.
Yet he has also begun to believe that without enough money, he is not worthy of being loved.
He wants to be loved for who he is, yet he has learned to measure who he is by what he earns.
And gradually, instead of asking himself, “What kind of woman would I love to share my life with?” he may begin asking a very different question:
“What kind of woman can I afford?”
Or, even more often:
“I can’t afford to have a family until I’m successful.”
How sad it is when love becomes another calculation in a society already obsessed with financial success.
And how easily that calculation can begin to influence not only whom a young man chooses to date, but also his ability to experience genuine attraction, emotional closeness, and intimacy.
When Fear Begins to Affect Intimacy
The consequences of prolonged psychological pressure do not always remain limited to our thoughts.
Our emotional state and physical well-being are deeply connected.
Chronic stress, anxiety, fear of rejection, and feelings of inadequacy can influence sexual desire, confidence, and sometimes erectile function.
For some young men, the fear of not being successful enough may gradually become a more personal fear: not being good enough as a romantic or sexual partner.
Instead of enjoying closeness, tenderness, and the natural expression of attraction, he may begin to feel that he is being evaluated.
That he must perform. That he must prove something. That he must succeed.
Even intimacy becomes another examination of his worth.
And when a man begins to judge his sexual experiences through this perspective, a temporary difficulty can acquire a meaning far greater than the experience itself.
Sexual Difficulties Are Not Only a Problem of Older Men
For a long time, erectile difficulties were commonly associated with aging. Yet research shows that men in their twenties and thirties can also experience problems with erectile function.
A study published in The Journal of Urology in 2020 examined data from 2,660 sexually active American men between the ages of 18 and 31.
The researchers found that 11.3% reported mild erectile dysfunction, while another 2.9% reported moderate-to-severe difficulties.
Together, approximately 14.2% of these young men reported some degree of erectile difficulty.
The researchers also found an association between anxiety and greater odds of moderate-to-severe erectile dysfunction.
Another American study, based on the 2021 National Survey of Sexual Wellbeing and published in 2024, examined erectile function among men across different age groups.
Among men aged 18 to 24, 17.9% met the screening criteria for erectile dysfunction.
Interestingly, the corresponding figures were 13.3% among men aged 25 to 34 and 12.7% among those aged 35 to 44.
These findings do not mean that every man identified through a questionnaire has a persistent sexual disorder. Nor do they establish that erectile difficulties are becoming more common among younger generations than they were in the past.
But they challenge the assumption that such experiences belong almost exclusively to older age.
And they invite us to consider an important question:
What role might the psychological pressures of modern life play in the sexual well-being of young men?
What Research Reveals About Anxiety and Sexual Confidence
A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2022 examined the relationship between depression, anxiety, and erectile dysfunction in American men aged 18 to 40.
Using health insurance records from 2009 to 2018, researchers identified more than 314,000 young men who had received a diagnosis of erectile dysfunction.
The findings showed that depression and anxiety were more common among men with erectile dysfunction than among men without it, both before and after the diagnosis.
During the year preceding an erectile dysfunction diagnosis, 17.1% of the affected men had recorded depression or anxiety, compared with 12.9% of men in the comparison group.
The association remained evident during the following years.
This does not prove that anxiety caused every case of erectile dysfunction. Psychological distress and sexual difficulties can influence each other, and their relationship is often complex.
Nevertheless, the findings highlight something important: sexual confidence cannot always be separated from emotional well-being.
Further research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2026 examined 535 Canadian men aged 18 to 40 who had been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction.
The researchers found that 15.1% had received a mental health diagnosis within five years before or after their erectile dysfunction diagnosis.
They also identified limited use of specialized mental health services among these patients.
To me, this raises a broader question about how we approach the emotional difficulties of young men.
Are we paying enough attention to what they are experiencing internally, or are we too often focused only on what appears to be happening externally?
When the Fear of Failure Becomes Part of the Problem
In 2021, the European Society of Sexual Medicine published a position paper examining the psychological and relational aspects of erectile dysfunction.
One of its important observations concerns the way attention, expectations, and anxiety can influence sexual responses.
When a man becomes preoccupied with whether his body will respond correctly, his attention may shift away from attraction, pleasure, and connection toward monitoring his own performance.
Instead of being fully present with his partner, he becomes an observer of himself.
The researchers describe how negative expectations, fear of failure, and unrealistic beliefs about male sexual performance can contribute to a self-reinforcing cycle of anxiety and sexual difficulties.
This is particularly relevant to the broader psychological pattern we have been discussing.
A young man who has already learned to measure his value through achievement may unconsciously bring the same mentality into his intimate life.
And an experience that might otherwise have been understood as a temporary difficulty becomes something much more personal.
He may begin to question his masculinity, his desirability, or his ability to satisfy a woman.
The difficulty itself may be temporary. But the meaning he attaches to it can continue influencing his confidence long afterward.
This is why I believe prevention should begin long before a young man develops a lasting fear of intimacy.
Not by frightening him with statistics or creating another standard he must meet.
Quite the opposite.
By helping him understand the relationship between stress, emotions, expectations, and sexual well-being.
By encouraging self-awareness rather than self-judgment.
By allowing intimacy to be an experience of mutual discovery rather than another opportunity to succeed or fail.
The European Society of Sexual Medicine emphasizes the importance of addressing anxiety, unrealistic expectations, communication, and emotional intimacy as part of a comprehensive approach to sexual difficulties.
These are not simply questions of sexual performance. They concern the way a person relates to himself and to another human being.
A young man should not have to question his worth as a man because of a sexual experience that did not unfold as he expected.
And the earlier he learns to separate his personal value from his sexual performance, the less power such experiences may have over his sense of self.
The Importance of Genuine Attraction and Emotional Connection
There is another psychological aspect of intimacy that deserves attention.
Not every man is naturally attracted to every woman. And not every woman is the right partner for every man.
When young people choose partners based on convenience, appearance, social expectations, or what they believe they can afford, they may find themselves attempting to create sexual intimacy without genuine attraction or emotional connection.
They may go on dates, spend time together, and eventually attempt to become sexually involved, only to discover that the experience is not fulfilling.
Sometimes the body simply does not respond as expected.
This does not necessarily mean that something is physically wrong. Emotional distance, lack of attraction, discomfort, and pressure to perform can all influence sexual experiences.
Sometimes the problem is not that a man is incapable of intimacy.
It is that he is trying to create intimacy where genuine connection is missing and love has been replaced by other motivations.
For many men, and often for women as well, genuine affection, mutual attraction, trust, and emotional closeness are essential parts of a fulfilling sexual relationship.
Sometimes two people are not emotionally or sexually compatible, even if they appear suitable for each other in other ways.
And sometimes a young man is so focused on whether he can satisfy a woman’s expectations that he forgets to ask himself whether he actually feels a genuine connection with her.
We should stop teaching young people, directly or indirectly, that sexual success is another measure of personal worth!
Intimacy should never be a test of your worth as a man or a measure of your ability to satisfy a woman. It should be a natural expression of mutual attraction, desire, and connection.
Heartbreak Is Not the End of Love
There is another important part of growing into adulthood that I believe we need to discuss more openly.
Disappointment in love.
Throughout human history, people have experienced rejection, betrayal, broken promises, and painful separations.
These experiences did not begin in contemporary society.
Many of us remember our first love, our first heartbreak, or a relationship that ended in ways we never expected.
Some experiences are deeply painful. Others simply teach us that two people may want different things or may not be right for each other.
Not everyone needs to experience betrayal or trauma to learn about love. But when disappointment happens, it can become an opportunity for emotional growth.
What matters is what we learn from it.
Imagine two young men who experience a painful breakup.
One concludes:
I trusted a woman, and she hurt me. Women cannot be trusted.
The other eventually comes to a different understanding:
I trusted someone who was not right for me. I need to understand my choices, my boundaries, and what kind of relationship I truly want.
Both experienced pain.
But one transforms his experience into distrust of an entire gender.
The other uses it to develop greater self-awareness and emotional maturity.
This difference can shape their future relationships.
A young man who has been hurt may begin seeking explanations that confirm his disappointment. If he surrounds himself with stories about betrayal and manipulation, his personal experience can start to feel like a universal rule.
But pain does not make every conclusion we draw from it true.
One person’s behavior cannot tell us what all women or all men are like.
The purpose of learning from heartbreak is not to become better at protecting yourself from love. It is to become wiser in choosing and creating it.
Our experiences can teach us what we value, what we need, what we should no longer accept, and how we ourselves can become better partners.
They should not become a prison that prevents us from loving again.
You Don’t Have to Be Successful to Find Love. Love Can Help You Build Success Together.
When I look back at earlier generations, including my own, I remember a different understanding of how relationships often began.
People met.
They fell in love.
They started building a life together.
They did not necessarily have financial security, established careers, beautiful homes, or a clear understanding of everything the future would bring.
They learned together. They struggled together. They celebrated small achievements together.
Sometimes relationships ended in divorce. Sometimes they discovered that they had grown in different directions.
There was never a guarantee of lifelong happiness.
And I do not want to romanticize the past. Earlier generations also faced unhappy marriages, financial hardship, inequality, and difficult choices.
But I believe there was something valuable in the understanding that two people could begin their journey before either of them had achieved everything.
Today, many young men seem to believe that they must first build a successful life and only afterward invite a woman into it.
But what happened to the beautiful idea of building that life together?
What happened to choosing someone not only for what they already have, but for who they are and what the two of you might create together?
A man who loves a woman may naturally want to share the fruits of his work with her.
He may find happiness in providing comfort, creating security, helping her fulfill her dreams, and offering whatever he is capable of giving.
But this desire should come from love, not from fear that he will be considered worthless if he cannot provide a particular lifestyle.
And a woman who loves a man may find joy in bringing tenderness, care, beauty, emotional warmth, and support into their shared life.
These are not rigid obligations or roles that every couple must follow. Love can be expressed in countless ways, and both partners can contribute financially, emotionally, and practically.
The important thing is the willingness to give, to receive, and to create something meaningful together.
There are women who place great importance on wealth and luxury.
There are also many women who care far more about a man’s character, kindness, integrity, emotional maturity, and willingness to build a future together.
Just as there are men who seek beauty, status, or convenience, and others who genuinely want love, companionship, and mutual growth.
The challenge is not to become attractive to everyone.
It is to find someone whose values are compatible with your own.
And here, I want to share something with young men that I believe many of them have not been told.
Let Me Tell You a Secret, Dear Young Man
Many women do not fall in love with a man’s financial achievements. They fall in love with the man they see in him, including the man he has the potential to become.
A woman in love often sees possibilities.
She notices his abilities, his dreams, his character, his ambitions, and the qualities that may not yet be fully developed.
Yes, this can occasionally lead to disappointment. Seeing someone’s potential is not the same as knowing who they truly are.
But here is what I want young men to understand:
Many women are not looking for a finished man. They are looking for a man they can believe in, love, and grow with.
They do not need you to have achieved everything before meeting them.
They want to discover who you are, what matters to you, what you dream about, and whether the two of you can create something meaningful together.
A woman can fall in love with your potential long before you recognize that potential in yourself.
Of course, every woman is an individual, and men, too, can see possibilities in the people they love.
But the important point is that love does not always begin with what someone has already accomplished.
It can begin with the recognition of who that person is and the possibilities of a shared future.
So do not assume that every woman is measuring your value by your bank account.
Give her the opportunity to discover the person behind your achievements, or behind the achievements you are still working toward.
The right woman for a man may not be looking for a finished success story. She may be looking for someone with whom she can create one.
Why Don’t We Teach Young People How to Build Relationships?
Sometimes I wonder why one of the most important subjects in life is not given greater attention in our education.
The psychology of human relationships.
We teach young people how to solve mathematical problems, understand history, and prepare for careers.
But who teaches them how to understand each other?
How to recognize genuine attraction?
How to communicate their feelings?
How to distinguish love from dependency, emotional connection from convenience, and real compatibility from an imagined ideal?
How to respect boundaries, recognize unhealthy behavior, and resolve disagreements without turning every conflict into a battle?
Men and women approach relationships with different experiences, expectations, and ways of expressing affection, and they may have different psychological traits. Every individual brings a unique emotional world into a relationship.
Understanding these differences should be part of growing up, not something we begin studying only after years of disappointment.
Many adults eventually turn to psychology, books, counseling, or personal development because they realize how little they understand about relationships with the opposite gender.
Would it not be better to give young people some of these tools before they begin building their adult lives?
Hopefully, in the future, these subjects will be added to school curricula.
Learning About People from People
Now, in the era of electronic communication, young people need to learn to communicate more on a personal level, not only online, and discover how much more enjoyable it can be to participate in their own lives instead of watching someone else’s life on a screen.
Meet people. Talk to them. Listen to their stories.
Learn how different people think, what they value, what they hope for, and what they have experienced.
You can gain meaningful insights from a conversation without turning it into a romantic relationship.
You can discover what you appreciate in another person without needing to become intimate with them.
And you can learn what genuine compatibility feels like by spending time with real people rather than trying to understand relationships entirely through other people’s online experiences.
Learn about people from people, not only from the internet’s version of them.
Living Too Much of Other People’s Lives
There is something I find particularly troubling about modern life, especially for the younger generation.
Many young adults become so deeply involved in the experiences of people they have never met that they may forget to pay attention to their own lives.
They absorb someone else’s fears, compare themselves with other people’s achievements, and allow strangers’ disappointments to influence their expectations.
But online information is not the same as genuine experience. What we encounter may be incomplete, selectively presented, misleading, or sometimes entirely false.
Knowing about someone else’s life is not the same as living our own.
At what point did we begin allowing strangers to shape our understanding of love, success, and happiness?
We have more access to information than any previous generation, yet access to information does not automatically create wisdom.
In fact, the constant availability of information places a new responsibility on each of us: we need to become more conscious of what we allow into our minds.
We can choose what we read, what we watch, whose opinions we follow, and which ideas deserve our attention.
Not every dramatic story deserves your emotional response.
Not every opinion deserves to become your belief.
And not every experience shared online contains a lesson that applies to your own life.
Wisdom requires choosing what NOT to consume.
It may mean stepping away from content that constantly promotes resentment, hostility, or fear.
It may mean seeking perspectives that encourage understanding rather than suspicion.
It may also mean giving yourself enough quiet space to recognize what you actually think and feel, without the endless influence of other people’s opinions.
The experiences of others can certainly teach you something. But they cannot replace your own experiences, choices, and relationships.
You cannot build a meaningful life if you spend most of your emotional energy living through the fears, failures, and achievements of strangers. You need that energy to build your own life.
A Different Way Forward
I do not believe young men need to be told that life is easy.
It is not.
Financial difficulties are real. Uncertainty is real. Dishonesty and betrayal exist.
Relationships sometimes fail, and love does not always unfold as we hope.
But none of this is new to humanity.
Every generation has faced its own challenges, disappointments, and fears.
What concerns me today is how easily those fears can become a person’s entire understanding of life.
A young man who is constantly afraid of being used may never allow himself to trust.
A man who believes he must become wealthy before he deserves love may postpone relationships for years.
And someone who chooses a partner primarily to satisfy social expectations may discover that the relationship lacks the genuine connection he was hoping to find.
This brings us back to the psychological pattern we began with.
When a young man measures himself by financial success, he may begin measuring potential partners by the same standards.
When he makes choices based on fear rather than genuine feelings, he may lose the opportunity to discover real compatibility.
And when those relationships fail to provide emotional or sexual fulfillment, he may interpret the disappointment as proof that something is wrong with him.
But in reality, nothing is wrong with his worth as a man.
Perhaps he has simply been looking for love through a system of expectations that has very little to do with love itself.
The way forward is not to become more successful at meeting everyone else’s expectations. It is to rediscover your own values, your own feelings, and your own understanding of what makes a relationship meaningful.
I would like young men to remember something that I believe is essential.
You are not defined by your income, your first heartbreak, or your parents’ marriage or divorce.
You are not defined by the failures of other men or the stories you see on the internet.
You are not defined by a disappointing sexual experience or a relationship that did not work out.
You have the ability to make your own choices, develop your own understanding, and create your own relationships.
You can learn from the past without allowing it to control your future.
You can take responsibility for your life without demanding perfection from yourself.
You can work toward financial success while still making room for love and meaningful relationships with family.
And you can choose a woman who wants to walk beside you from the beginning of your journey, and not simply enjoy the results of a journey you have already completed.
Perhaps the older generation has a responsibility here as well.
Not to lecture young people or dismiss their concerns, but to share our experience, listen to their fears, and remind them that life has always involved uncertainty.
That love has always required courage.
That disappointment does not mean failure.
And that a meaningful life is not measured only by material achievements.
I hope young men will begin to see that they do not need to have everything figured out before allowing themselves to love and be loved.
They do not need to become perfect.
They do not need to become millionaires.
They need to discover who they are, what they value, and what kind of life they want to create.
They need to learn to recognize genuine attraction, emotional connection, and mutual respect.
And they need to give themselves permission to experience life rather than constantly evaluate whether they are successful enough to deserve it.
Somewhere along that journey, they may meet a woman who wants to build a life with them.
Someone who appreciates not only what they have already achieved, but also who they are as human beings.
Someone with whom they can grow, learn, laugh, overcome difficulties, and create a relationship based on mutual respect, trust, affection, and love.
You do not have to become wealthy to become worthy of love.
You do not have to become perfect before you allow someone to know you.
And you do not have to carry the fears, disappointments, and broken relationships of thousands of strangers as if they were your own.
Your life is still yours to create.
Love was never meant to be the reward waiting at the end of a successful life.
It can be one of the most beautiful parts of building that life.
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