Getting cut from the team freed up the afternoons where you found what you’re actually good at.

Losing a place you wanted takes the thing itself and also every hour you had built around it, and the empty afternoons afterwards are genuinely bleak for a while. Sometimes, though not always and never on schedule, something moves into that space that could never have fitted before. That is not a reason the loss was good. It is only what tends to happen next.

If you are in the empty part now, put one thing in the gap that you were curious about. Give it a month before you decide anything about it.