It takes many years for that to take effect. I’ve been through this countless of times. Meanwhile I continually get older, chances and options disappear, the life I was supposed to have lived all but disappearing. I just passed the last exit ramp.
Friends never stay, relationships end by rejection and running away, all while I still can’t see any purpose for existing at all. It’s pointless. A constant struggle I have lost all interest in of continuing after more than four decades.