You can't improve your past but the sooner you let go of it the more likely you are to see other opportunities -- in the now. Your closing question was "How do

You can't improve your past but the sooner you let go of it the more likely you are to see other opportunities -- in the now. Your closing question was "How do you cope?" and I do think that your primary challenge at the moment is to work on changing the way you (habitually) think about the situation.