The bus that just left isn’t the last bus. Missing one chance rarely means missing every chance.

Scarcity is usually an illusion produced by the thing being gone. One missed opportunity feels final because you can watch it leaving and cannot see the next one, which has not arrived yet and so does not exist in your head. Almost nothing in life comes exactly once.

If you have just missed something, give yourself an afternoon to be annoyed and then go and find the next one. Look up when the next intake, tryout or application opens. Put that date in your phone so the missed one stops being the whole story.