Up until this past month, my girlfriend and I have been former minor celebrities attempting to live some semblance of a normal life. As of this week, she's found a way back into the celebrity game and she's taking it and leaving me. I'd be kidding myself if I said I didn't miss it as well. Since I've been a normal dude I feel like the life has been sucked out of me.

I just don't know how to get back in. I don't know why I'm asking 4chan, but it just gets to me, I'm literally a guy living my parents' basement and I'm just feeling like, this is what I've been reduced to. Everyone who was with me when I got in has either died or gone to prison so I don't know a single person who could get me back in. I don't even have any friends anymore. I basically just go to my normal job and come home to watch netflix and fuck my girlfriend, which is awesome but I miss feeling like the big man, and I know my life isn't as good as it could be. I also know she fell in love with me when I was like that and it's harder for her to love me now because I don't even love myself.

I got involved in that lifestyle when I was probably about 18 as a result of believing I had no limits and could do virtually whatever I wanted. I talked to celebrities and sold products like they were my equals, and presented myself like I was the king of the chicken coop. Everyone, my girlfriend, therapists, former friends, have told me I could be just as big if I honestly believed I could not fail, the way I did back then, but it just seems so far away.

People who have gotten themselves out of a funk and back to their glorious former selves, how did you do it?