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Zielschmerzzeel-shmerts

n. The dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could.

Etymology

German Ziel, goal + Schmerz, pain.

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