Demotivated after moving back to India

Those of you who didn't get h1b and had to move back to home country after exhausting OPT time, how are you doing now? How do you cope with the fact that the American life you loved is far behind, leaving back your close friends and professional growth in US?

I moved back to my home country (India) last year but still struggling to accept the reality. I felt happiness and a sense of belonging for the first time in my life in the US. It almost seems like a big setback and failure, even though the lottery was out of my control. I know working in India is not the end of the world and I have worked in India before moving to US but it seems like it to me at this point.

How did you bring yourself to accept the reality and move on?