I also dropped out very early. Struggled with that disappointment for a long time. Moved in with my SO’s parents and lived with them for years!
We moved out and got a rental when I was 25. I’m 29 now and working on my career in banking. Started exercising the last couple years and have been keeping up with it consistently. I feel like it was only in the last few years that I felt I was making progress but really needed some optimism to keep going. You just never know what’s going to change your life around. Try to improve yourself in any way you can and sometimes that can help you change your trajectory
My barber has rest my head on his pecs when lining up my forehead before and it made me feel a lot of things