There’s no use dwelling on what could have been…
It’s not a reality, nor will it ever be.  It may have been a hope, a dream or a possibility once – but now it exists only in your mind.
It is now nothing more than smoke from the flicker of hope that has been blown out…  a dream you once had that has now become a haunting nightmare and it’s time to face the fact that any possibility of happiness now lies in front of you – not behind.
So don’t let it torture you any longer.
Stop punishing yourself for the chances not taken, the choices not made and the road not travelled… Look around you at what you still have… look ahead to all the potential futures that still exist for you…
You’ve already missed an opportunity once – don’t dwell on it so much you end up missing another that was right in front of you all along…
if only you’d opened your eyes and seen it…