Is youth the best time? Essay on the topic: Youth is a wonderful time Dear friends, young residents of the region.

Dear boys and girls!

I sincerely congratulate you on Russian Youth Day!

Youth is a bright and eventful time in every person’s life, the time of first achievements and victories. Today, we are all trying together to create conditions for maximizing the potential and realizing the intellectual and creative capabilities of modern young people. It is gratifying that our efforts find response and support from progressive youth who strive to make the world a better place with their ideas and projects.

We are proud of you. You study and work successfully, actively participate in charity events, play sports, boldly defend your principles and views, and know how to make responsible decisions.

May the optimism, independence, creativity, and self-confidence inherent in youth remain with you forever!

With all my heart I wish you bright discoveries, creative and professional self-realization, true friends and fateful meetings, pleasant, unforgettable events!

Happy holiday!

Vladimir YAKUSHEV , Acting Governor of the Tyumen Region.

Dear fellow countrymen!

I sincerely congratulate you on Youth Day!

This holiday is special for our district. Yamal is young at heart, and the people who inhabit it are a match for it. It is the young people who initiate and implement the most daring ideas and become the inspirers of the progressive development of our district and our country.

The current socio-political situation in the world clearly illustrates the importance of the state’s work in the field of youth policy. The facts of fascist propaganda and neo-Nazi manifestations resonate painfully in the hearts and souls of our fellow citizens. And in Yamal, where over 100 nationalities and nationalities live in peace and harmony, they know better than many how important it is to instill in a young person respect for other peoples, for their culture and customs, for the great past of the Motherland.

Yamal gives young people the most important thing: it provides the opportunity to reveal their potential and find a worthy place in life. And this is the main priority for us, government officials. And this is a very important advantage of Yamal youth.

Dear friends! On this day, I wish you to achieve the highest peaks in work and creativity, in science and social activities! Be persistent and purposeful! Know, governor, the government of the Autonomous Okrug is ready to support all your good initiatives!

Happy holiday, Yamal residents! Happy Youth Day, young Yamal!

Dmitry KOBYLKIN , Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Dear friends, young residents of the region!

On behalf of the deputies of the Tyumen Regional Duma, I congratulate you on Youth Day!

The Tyumen region is preparing to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its formation. In our region, the memory of the glorious deeds of the youth who defended the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War and developed the agricultural and oil and gas virgin lands is sacredly preserved. With the hands of young people, a powerful oil and gas production complex has been created, providing the economic base and energy security of the country. Today's youth worthily carry the baton of older generations.

I am confident that you will make a worthy contribution to the socio-economic development of the Tyumen region. I wish the young residents of Tyumen health, happiness and love. May your souls and thoughts be pure and noble. Let there always be a spirit of creativity and optimism in your aspirations, dreams and deeds.

Sergey KOREPANOV , Chairman of the Tyumen Regional Duma.

Dear friends!

Congratulations on one of the brightest holidays - Youth Day!

The younger generation is a symbol of the future that Yamal, modern Russia, is striving for. The path of development of the Autonomous Okrug and the country largely depends on you. Your extensive knowledge, creative abilities, active participation in the social and political life of the region allow you to express yourself and bring your own ideas to life. Today Yamal is waiting for new bold ideas and non-standard solutions.

I am sure that your creative energy, perseverance and determination will be the key to success in your studies and work, the implementation of creative initiatives, good luck and optimism!

Sergei KHARYUCHI , Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Dear friends!

On behalf of the deputies of the Tyumen City Duma, I congratulate you on one of the brightest holidays - Youth Day!

Youth and youth are a wonderful time of daring, searching, discovering and realizing your wildest hopes. The future of our city, region, and country depends on you, young people. You are a guarantee of stability and prosperity for Russia. Youth is our main wealth, a new generation of winners, creators, rooting for their country, conscious of and defending its vital interests.

Today we are rightfully proud of many young people who show great promise: athletes, wonderful highly professional specialists, talented musicians and artists. You have been given great opportunities - do not stop there, always move forward! New victories and achievements!

Dmitry EREMEEV , head of the municipal district of the city of Tyumen, chairman of the Tyumen City Duma.

Dear Tyumen residents!

Our time gives you, the young, talented, daring, ample opportunities to realize your most daring ideas. Tyumen has excellent conditions for your intellectual, spiritual and physical development. We expect from young people initiatives and non-standard solutions that will contribute to economic growth, improvement of technology, and growth in the level and quality of life of people.

Friends! Let your personal successes, achievements and victories become the successes of our hometown and its residents. Create, enjoy life, achieve new heights! I wish you happiness, health and inexhaustible optimism. May your years be eventful, bright and memorable, and may good luck invariably accompany you in your affairs!

Alexander MOOR , head of the Tyumen city administration.

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Youth is a wonderful time

Youth is, without a doubt, the best time in the life of every person. This is a time of active growth, exploration, learning about yourself and others. A time when the world, which you look at through rose-colored glasses, seems so simple and beautiful.

In our youth, we almost never get bored, because there are so many interesting things around. Cinemas, museums, discos, entertainment centers where you can go with friends to have fun in good company. And during the holidays, you can go on a country trip with your parents, go to the sea in Sochi, or even visit a foreign resort.

Each coming day in youth always brings with it something new and positive. When you wake up in the morning, you never know what awaits you today. Perhaps it will be an unexpected meeting with an old acquaintance on the street, or maybe your favorite movie will be shown on TV in the evening or your dad will bring you refreshing pistachio ice cream from work. Even such insignificant events in youth cause a whole storm of positive emotions, which is very surprising to adults, who, it turns out, are no longer so easy to please with something.

And in your youth it is always very nice to celebrate a birthday, because at this age, the older you get, the more opportunities you have, since some parental restrictions are lifted. In addition, a birthday is also a wonderful occasion to throw a bright party, bringing together all your friends and acquaintances. And if such an event takes place not at home, but, for example, in a cafe or bowling club, then the holiday will definitely be remembered for a long time by everyone present.

This is such a beautiful and cheerful time of youth. Of course, she is not always as good and carefree as it might seem at first glance, because teenagers also have their own problems. But in most cases, these problems are easily solved, you just have to turn to your elders for help.

It's time for beautiful youth
It's time for hopes, it's time for dreams,
It's time for love, it's time for suffering,
It's time for blossoming and desires.
How many questions do we ask?
and I want to know so much.
After all, there are so many unknowns in the world
and everything is very interesting to us...
In the impulse of a young fuse, we hurry,
we fly at full speed so that everything
catch up and enjoy the live
living in hope,
that everything might come back
we will have time to know ourselves.
Lyubov Gordienko.

It's time for dreams, audacity, extreme sports, selfishness and self-affirmation. It's time when it seems that you are already an adult and can make decisions on your own, without consulting anyone, but you are still considered a child who does not understand anything about adult life and this makes you very angry. And so you are trying to find understanding in some companies, because it seems to you that at home no one understands you, and they don’t even try to understand, but there, you are on your own wavelength, you are always welcome and understood, at least you think so.

It’s time, somewhere maybe even tragedy from unrequited love, and this can happen. But this is also the time for the blossoming of the soul, the time for the revelation of a person’s personality, the time for an active search for oneself. And how their eyes light up when they find something interesting, how much enthusiasm appears when they want to implement something. But not for everyone, it passes easily. Some people have a hard time growing up. But which of us, dear adults, was not a teenager?

Do you remember how easy it was for you, and do you think it was easy for your child? They are impudent, obstinate, but at the same time, very vulnerable. Sometimes one rude word, spoken inappropriately and without thought, can lead to tragedy.

For those whose parents taught them to be independent from childhood and taught them to take responsibility for their actions, it is easier for them to go through all stages of development. They move through life more confidently, knowing what they want.

But for those who were constantly belittled, enjoying the power of the parent, oh how many adults love to do this, telling the child: “Yes, you still don’t understand anything, you don’t understand, you don’t know anything, you can’t do anything, you’re nothing, and they call I don’t like you, you’re mediocrity, etc.” It is much more difficult for them to go through the path of development. We sometimes don’t think that with such an attitude we create in our children a guilt complex, a personal inferiority complex.

Sometimes we, without mincing words, drive them away from us, citing our busyness, fatigue, when they come up with questions or for advice. Sometimes they just want to express their point of view, but we silence them. Why do you think that you can express your opinion, but the child cannot? Or maybe it’s worth listening to them sometimes? It’s not for nothing that they say: “The lips of a child speak the truth.” Honestly, we have a lot to learn from them.

But we know that if you come up once or twice and get punches psychologically, and maybe even physically, if mom or dad are in a non-standard state, you won’t want to come up next time, let alone something ask, you will think more than once, and suddenly they will scold you again.

An ordinary situation that occurs in many families where there are drinking parents. A mother, cowering in fear from the beatings she has suffered, both psychological and maybe physical, closed in her grievances, tells her son when he comes up with some good news or just for advice, or he just wants to listen to music like this I like it, below is an example dialogue...
So what does he hear in response?

Remember the article about the internal sun, and how it closes if the fields are out of sync. Emotions close the mind. They separate a person from the world because you have made them the main ones. The emotional field begins to control you, and you simply go off the rails, as they say. And God forbid, your child gets a little insolent at this moment.

Resentment explodes and you are ready to throw, throw, and even kill your child, taking out all the pain, resentment for an unfulfilled life and your own unsettledness. For everything, at him, at your little child, but at this moment you don’t think that he is small.

Of course, later, then the understanding comes that you were or was wrong, that you lost your temper, but you reassure yourself that your nerves were playing out, because you are in constant stress, but the trauma has already been caused to the child. And how does he deal with this? Will his still stronger psyche cope?

Can you imagine the state of mind of a teenager? Many may exclaim: “Oh, has anyone thought about my soul?” But who else but you can think about it? If you like to be a victim of circumstances that you yourself shape throughout your life, then you will never become a wizard. You know, it’s like a disease, many can talk about it for hours, days, years, and then they wonder why they can’t be cured.

The mental state of an adult depends on himself, we build our own lives and reap the fruits of our labor, but we have already talked about this. But the mental state of a teenager, while his personality is being formed, directly depends on you, my dear parents, it is not the school that is responsible for this, but the parents.

Often in conversations with children I hear the answer to the question: “Why didn’t you consult with your parents on what to do? They answer: “They have no time, they are always at work, or they are always quarreling, they have no time for me.”

The school, as well as the street, as an institute, make their own amendments, but they are corrective, emerging stages in the development of a person’s personality. And blame it on the fact that he went and got involved with a bad company, picked up bad things there and they led him astray from the right path, but we were so diligent, we protected him, explained that this was bad, that you needed something else, you shouldn’t go there and do it.
We are happy to always blame someone else, because it’s easier that way.

The situation is even worse when parents buy the love of their children, who have everything for them, and for them. We’ll buy what you need or don’t need, pay where you need it and how much you need, etc. Considering that no matter what the child enjoys, as long as she doesn’t scream, as long as it’s enough. Just to stand out from the crowd and be noticed, not by him, but by you, how wealthy and omnipotent you are.

And suddenly, because he has everything, he begins to take drugs, drink, and steal; there are many examples of this. How children supposedly from prosperous families end their lives by suicide and overdose. You don’t explain to them what exists in the world that cannot be bought; on the contrary, you encourage them and turn a blind eye to their tricks.

Meanwhile, in life there are things that cannot be bought for any money - this is Love, Happiness, Respect, Health, Trust. Their ancestor is true, pure, spiritual Love, and with it comes Happiness, Joy, Respect, Trust, Health.

In addition, such children grow up absolutely not independent; when they find themselves in any difficult situation, they cannot make any decision. After all, someone has always decided everything for them, but they themselves cannot do anything.

You often hear from them: “I’ll call my dad or mom now, they will come and sort out all the problems, solve all the issues.” And where, they themselves want to ask, what can they do? Their period of growing up is prolonged, far beyond adolescence.

I see people like this. And I want to say that I sincerely sometimes feel sorry for them.

You don't live, you exist thinking that you are living. Sometimes they look very funny when, with all their pathos, gloss, significance, they do not understand elementary things, or rather, they forget that he or she is a simple person, with his own content, which works on the same elementary laws of energy and physics and the Universe.

You often hear from them: “Everything is there, I can take what I want, get what I want, I can go to a restaurant and leave there as much as many earn in a year, but somehow I’m not happy about it. There is no happiness, everyone only needs my money, while I pay them, they smile at me, flatter me, show respect, but they don’t notice me.”

My dears, you yourself wanted this, so draw your own conclusions. And while you are doing them, think about what you are teaching your child to do the same. Do you really want the same fate for him? Don't you want him to be happy? For once, think about him. You will leave in your own time, and then who will pay for his love, and he will not be able to do it any other way, since he is accustomed to the fact that everything is done for him.

Your child is a miracle given to you, who loves you just like that, and not for money. And you reject such love, replacing it with a monetary equivalent, and then accuse him of growing up a “loafer” and an ignoramus. Don't hurt your children.

Everything should be in moderation and in due time. The Bible says: “All human labor is for his mouth, but the spiritual is not satisfied,” “A time to scatter stones, a time to gather them,” “a time to plant a tree, a time to gather its fruit.” Before you do anything or force them to do anything, think about whether they need what you offer?

If you are so wise from life experience that, having reached a certain age, you are active, healthy, full of strength and energy. If this is the case, then I am happy for you, and of course you can invite your child to follow your example and do what you did in order to achieve what you have achieved, while remaining healthy and whole.

But if you think that you can, indicate and impose your point of view, saying that this is exactly what you need. You are wrong.

How can you be sure that if he or she does the same as you, the result will be the same as yours?

There is an expression: “As many hands as there are, so many dishes,” and they prepare one dish and add the same ingredients, in the same sequence, but get dishes that taste different. Therefore, you cannot be completely sure that the result you expect will be, even if you control every step and put some ingredients together.

The explanation for this is simple: your child must independently go through the stages of development. Everything has its time. Give him this opportunity, but be there when he needs help.

We can only offer to follow our example, but the child must choose for himself. And what you want to impose on him can harm him to a greater extent than if he does not do it. A person is designed in such a way that the more he is forced to do this or that, the less he wants to do just that. The more pressure, the more aggression.
To be continued….

Lyubov Gordienko

Do you really think that youth is the best time?

Youth is the best time, many people repeat this phrase, and, deep down, they remember their first loves, night walks, hopes and other very pleasant things.

How many different kinds of works, songs, stories have been created around these memories. This period is called the period of accomplishments, quests, achievements, and so on.

Naturally, if your entire future life passed between an unloved job and everyday life, where there is a lot of hassle and fuss, then the gain in comparison is obvious.

What if the situation looks different? What if a person manages to gain experience, wisdom, create a good family, do what he loves, improve the functioning of his body, and have a bunch of plans and achievements?

Somehow, with such a comparison, the value of youth fades into the background and acquires its true meaning.

Gentlemen, youth is only period of trial and error. The period of gaining a certain amount of experience and knowledge. How can you call this period the best in a person’s life?

If you were able to draw the right conclusions, spent a considerable amount of time working on yourself, found your soul mate, found your favorite thing, gave birth to wonderful children, this is the best period of all the years you have lived.

And if, in addition to all this, you have unrealized plans, to achieve which you will have to master and rethink a lot of things, do a lot of work to implement your plans, then the best years are ahead of you, you just need to do the work and engage in your own development.

I have a favorite toast, I have already given it as an example, but I want to voice it again, it contains such correctness:

“Today I remember with a smile what and how I did a year ago, during this time I learned a lot and learned a lot, so let’s drink to the fact that in a year I will remember exactly what I do with the same smile Today."

I make this toast at every birthday, and it has a very good and correct meaning, well in tune with the Universal Laws.

If the development vector is directed upward, then a year later a person reaches the next step in his life. This step is a little higher than those that came before it; accordingly, these are new qualities and new skills. And here it is simply impossible to say that the previous states were better. Well, no way.

If vector of development towards degradation, then, here it is, a field for various kinds of regrets and lamentations about the past best years.

Moreover, when a person sincerely agrees that his best years are behind him, he thereby covers for himself all further prospects and opportunities. This is the position of the defeated, folding his paws on his chest.

Remember how many cockroaches were in your head in your youth? How much work was done during this period of hyperactivity? How many false values ​​and ridiculous attitudes were there? Can this period be called the best?

Quite the opposite. With such an energy overload, if you manage to go through this period with minimal losses and transform the cockroaches into working qualities, this is the best result of youth. How many people were killed, how much health was lost, how many mistakes were made.

So, before the next time you shed a tear about the past years and lost opportunities, I recommend thinking, maybe this is the very moment when the time has come to start building your future, realizing your failed dreams, no matter what age you are, at this were not there at the moment.

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31. Youth is a wonderful time

The Beihai Forum was not at all alien to Lu Chen.

The Beihai Forum was called the first Chinese student online community, which was very famous. A huge number of people visited him. When Lu Chen was still studying at Jianghai University, he was already engaged in flooding on the Beihai forum and got into various disputes. He had his own account on the forum.

And although Lu Chen had not gone there for a long time, memories from the past quickly surfaced in his head, and he still felt that all this was close and familiar to him.

He even had a certain sympathy for the students sitting in front of him.

“I’m very glad that you were able to listen to my speech...”

He beckoned with his hand to the waiter surnamed Zhang, who was secretly peeping nearby, and smiled and said: “I advise you to drink a glass of Summer Flirting. I ask you to love and favor me. Thank you!"

Summer Flirting was the name of a low-intensity cocktail that was most suitable for ladies, because it didn’t get you very drunk.

The students laughed. Perhaps from excitement, or perhaps from embarrassment. There was an atmosphere of joy around them, inherent only to young people.

One of the students in a white dress asked, “Your name is Lu Chen, right? They say you're still studying at university? This is true?"

“Bring me five glasses of Summer Flirt and put it on my tab!”

Lu Chen stared at little Zhang who had just arrived and placed an order at his own expense.

He nodded and answered frankly: “Yes, I’m studying at Jianghai University, and I’m going to graduate in half a month. Maybe for you I will be a senior student?

Lu Chen's gaze made Little Zhang feel incredibly timid and immediately ran to the bar to get some drinks.

The students looked at each other, and then said in one voice: “Okay, senior!”

One of the students in a yellow dress said: “I have been to Jianghai University. I have a friend there studying at the Faculty of Arts. Who knows, maybe you know each other. Will the senior leave his number at Feixun for me?”

The girl in the yellow dress was very beautiful. At university, a lot of people were after her, but she usually behaved quite reservedly towards guys and was never the first to ask for their contact information.

But she really really liked Lu Chen's songs. “You are my desk neighbor” and “Cinderella” - she loved both of these songs. The most important thing was that Lu Chen had an attractive appearance and an open soul, and was also a senior student from Jianghai University. Naturally, all this aroused her special sympathy.

"No problem!"

Lu Chen agreed without any hesitation and told them his Feixun number.

One after another, the female students pulled out their mobile phones and immediately added Lu Chen as a friend on Feixun.

Lu Chen therefore learned that these girls were all studying at the Capital Normal University. The girl in the white dress, Zuo Xintian, and the girl in the yellow dress, Ye Zitong, were second-year students studying at the Faculty of Philology of the Capital Pedagogical University.

Zuo Xintian lived up to the meaning of her name and was a lovely and pleasant type of girl. (*In the name Xintian, the character “xin” means “good reputation”, and “tian” means “attractive”*) Among the five girls, Ye Zitong stood out greatly in figure and appearance.

Zuo Xintian asked, “Senior student Lu Chen, do you have a full video or audio of your songs? Video filming is prohibited here, and I want even more people to hear your songs.”

She looked at Lu Chen hopefully.

Lu Chen replied, “It’s simple, do you know about WhaleTV?”

A sparkle flashed in Zuo Xintian's eyes and she hurriedly replied: “Of course I know. I’m a bronze user there!”

Lu Chen said with a laugh: “Then great. Look for a streamer with the nickname Lu Fei: the character “Lu” from the word “mainland” and the character “Fei” from the word “soar”. This will take you straight to my channel. There is a link to fully recorded videos of two songs. At the same time, I invite you to watch my stream.”

In the meantime, he attracted several fans to him.

“It turns out that you also broadcast on the Internet!”

The girls were pleasantly surprised and one after another declared that they would definitely come to support him.

At this time, Little Zhang had just presented the cocktails he had made, and Lu Chen said goodbye to the students.

When he left, the four girls seemed to have agreed in advance, staring at Ye Zitong at the same time.

“You...what is this?”

Ye Zitong looked extremely timid in their eyes. With an innocent look, she grabbed the straw sticking out of the cocktail.

The girl sitting opposite her laughed: “Speak up. Our ice goddess's heart was melted and she fell in love with senior student Lu Chen? Tell everything honestly, otherwise we’ll torture you!”

“What nonsense are you talking about!”

Ye Zitong immediately became embarrassed, a charming blush appeared on her face, and she began to make excuses: “What other ice goddess? Why would I like senior student Lu Chen, I just liked his songs and that’s all. You’re the one who fell in love here!”

“I visited Jianghai University, my friend studies there at the Faculty of Arts. Maybe they know each other!”

The girl sitting opposite Ye Zitong said in a seductive voice: “The senior student will leave his number at Feixun for me, okay? Hm?"

She repeated Ye Zitong’s recent words and added a long “hmm” at the end. It turned out very tempting!

Zuo Xingtian and the other girls immediately burst out laughing.

The students forgot that at the moment they were not in their dormitory, but in a bar. Their laughter inevitably attracted surprised glances from many of the visitors sitting around.

Sensing the strange situation, the students, realizing their behavior, immediately fell silent and took on a serious look.

This allowed Ye Zitong to generally avoid pressure and interrogation from her girlfriends.

Originally, she really only liked the two songs that Lu Chen performed, but when her friends started making fun of her, for some reason her heart suddenly began to beat faster.

Did she really have something for him?

A bashful blush appeared on Ye Zitong’s thin face again. She immediately grabbed a cocktail straw and began drinking Summer Flirtation in large sips in order to somehow distract herself from her absurd thoughts.

Who performed exciting love songs on stage?

When Lu Chen returned to his modest abode on the ground floor, it was already 10:50 pm.

He didn’t miss the promised opening time of the stream, so he turned on the computer and logged into his account on .

The second broadcast on the platform after signing the contract began exactly at 23:00!

It was already prime time for live broadcasts on the Internet, but it didn’t matter because Lu Chen had agreed with Chen Jianhao at the bar that starting tomorrow he would perform from 10:30 p.m.

Thus, in the future he could consistently stream from 19:00 to 22:00, that is, for three whole hours!

Although he would have to work hard, for a short period of time, Lu Chen had no intention of giving up any one job. allowed him to earn a lot of money and gain popularity. And Krasodnev could help him expand his connections in certain circles and get even more opportunities.

Time was slipping away like water. Lu Chen restored his former strict routine in life.

Exactly at 6 in the morning he woke up, washed his face, went out for a run to exercise, where he exhausted himself to the point of impotence and only then came home tired, dragging his feet. After lunch in his modest home, he organized the data from his memories.

He spent dinner in a cafe. The prices there were not cheap, but for Lu Chen, whose appetite was growing every day, this place was still considered quite economical. Besides, now he could afford to spend money on food.

As soon as the time approached 7 pm, work began!

In or better yet, in the online streaming industry, Lu Chen was an absolute newcomer.

However, on the broadcast he did not behave like a newcomer.

Because Lu Chen could either sing lyrical folk songs with his pure and clear sound, or sing a light rock song with a little hoarseness, or tell a joke that no one had ever heard. And all this, together with his cheerful emotions, attracted fish fans and made them immensely happy.

Xu Bo, Mo Ran, Fan Ming'i; singer, actor, freelance writer: three experienced memories that came from the dream world burst out of Lu Chen's body, intertwined, showed themselves fully through the Internet, giving Lu Chen a unique power of charm.

No ingratiation, no deception, no bragging to attract the public, no swearing, no third-rate jokes... During the set three hours of broadcast, Lu Chen treated his viewers and fans conscientiously.

Behavior determined everything!

Some people came to Lu Chen's stream, watched it, and left without paying any more attention to him. But even more people stayed there, becoming fish fans of Lu Fei's channel, who sat in front of their computer monitors every day and waited for the set time for a new broadcast to open.

Because everyone liked the way Lu Chen sang and played, liked the jokes he told, and even more so liked communicating with him.

Lu Chen's popularity grew steadily. After the number of subscribed fish fans exceeded 50 thousand people, over the next few days the number of subscribers continued to increase and already reached 70 thousand, and then 100 thousand!

The maximum number of viewers was 150 thousand, and on average he received 300 thousand awards every day, these were simply unimaginable numbers!

Youth is a wonderful time when you swim against the tide with complete enthusiasm!


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