Investment is like my own child. I am surprised by this feeling myself

I started investing a few years after I began working as a professional.
Until then, 'investing' felt somewhat suspicious and far removed from my life.
I thought that only a few special people succeeded and that it had nothing to do with an ordinary person like me.

However, when I actually started working, learned about taxes and pension systems, and began thinking about the future as a reality, I suddenly paused and wondered, 'What is the best way to use this money?'
After gathering information from books and the internet, the feeling of 'maybe I should try investing' gradually emerged, and now I have become more of an investor than a saver.

I am not saying that I want to recommend investing to everyone.
Rather, whether it is truly the right method for you depends on the individual.
There are many suspicious stories out there, and I feel that one's mindset is more important than the methodology.
If someone asked me, 'Should I invest?', I would tell them, 'If you feel secure with savings, that is fine. But if you are curious about investing, you should try it with a small amount after studying it yourself.'

And now, having continued this investment life for several years, an unexpected emotion has sprouted.
It is the feeling that 'investing has started to feel like my own child.'

I diligently set aside money from my salary, increase my investment amount, and at times feel anxious, while at other times I feel joy.
Even though they should just be a collection of numbers without emotions, there are moments when even their fluctuations feel like a child's growth or mood swings.
Of course, investing and raising a child are completely different things.
However, in the sense that I have carefully spent time accumulating and nurturing them, I feel there is something in common.

Do you find this feeling strange?
But when my perspective on money shifted from 'earning,' 'spending,' and 'saving' to 'nurturing,' I felt that the way I see the world changed just a little bit.
It is the feeling of facing not someone else's future, but my own.
It is a gaze like watching over something that is growing slowly but surely.

We tend to seek only visible results and immediate effects, and perhaps we are gradually losing the sense of nurturing something over time in our daily lives.
Isn't it possible that the experience of 'nurturing' something, not limited to investment, gives us something surprisingly significant?

Where do you feel the sense of nurturing something, not limited to investment?