I'm in my 50's, this experience will happen several more times in your life. It is good to learn how to recognize it and sit with it, ultimately accepting it an

I'm in my 50's, this experience will happen several more times in your life. It is good to learn how to recognize it and sit with it, ultimately accepting it and moving on from it. > Yet I can't seem to fully rekindle the same energy of my younger self. I went through this in my late 30's early 40's (in my 50's now). You never will recapture that invicible excitement of your early 20's, you only find new forms. If you read literature, this is literally the topic of thousands of poems, epics, sagas, songs, and novels. I think it is wrong that teenagers are forced to read these classics, when the the woes and laments they describe are purely for older people. I am not a psychotherapist, obviously, but since you are asking for advice: 1. The mourning will end, but it will come again in some other form; this is unavoidable part of life. Normalizing that is part of the battle. 2. Everyone in the history of humanity has gone through what you are going through. It is part of the rite of adulthood. Honor the fact that you have finally had the experience. 3. Create new memories. New memories push old memories back into past. If you don't create new memories, you will ruminate on your last ones. Like Al Bundy always fantasizing about his highschool touchdown late into his 50's (american TV show!). 4. Meeting new people helps create new memories. Find new groups. In the past 30 years I have done the following: - Gaming groups (local game store has walk-in night where you can sit and play new games with strangers) - Pub trivia (I found a team) - Hiking (local meetup) - Pottery lessons - French lessons (taken at my local college in the adult program, LOTS of private parties, dinners & events that were french themed) - Teaching programming to the local hacker club(s) - Stained-glass window making lessons - Carpentry lessons - Getting into deep-woods backpacking I took a lot of classes. But you get the gist. I have SO many memories that my brain is a blur after decades of this and I need pictures to remind myself of all of the comedy/tragedy I've been through. Good luck!