Regulation ended tied. That’s why overtime exists. Your story didn’t end just because the clock hit zero.

Deadlines are arrangements, not verdicts. A date passed, a season closed, an age arrived, and none of that settles what you are capable of next. The finality you feel is coming from a calendar, which was never in a position to decide anything about you.

Name the clock you think ran out on you. Then ask who set it and what it actually governs. Most of the time you will find it governed a schedule and nothing more, and the next stretch is still open.