Your comeback starts the day you stop explaining the setback.

Explaining keeps you standing in the old event, arguing a case to people who have mostly moved on. Every retelling refreshes the story and confirms the version where the thing that happened is the main fact about you. There is a point where the explanation has done all the work it can do. After that it is just maintenance on a place you no longer live.

Notice how often the story comes up this week and how much of it is defense. Try answering with one sentence and then changing the subject to what you are doing now. See whether anyone actually presses for more.