Can you expand on your experience? any particular lessons you learned? Seems like you had all the conventional marks of success, I find it hard to believe that that was all for naught.
Do you think you would have been as disappointed if you had ignored your goals and settled for a more “normal” life?
when 'high status' is the benchmark, there's going to be an element of let-down & disgust with one's self on arriving.
i'm seeing less and less smart people think in terms of status.
Or a problem with winning the rat race is you have to be a rat.
Unhappiness is worse than for naught.
I hope you are healing.