[surfTide]

This question has been posed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30230620 (slightly different circumstances however there are parallels).

Either way, my favourite answer was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30231627

"It helps to bear in mind that about 99.9999% of the worlds population have no awareness of your existence."

That helped me.

I then created a domain based on that comment[1] and then decided to create an alter ego[2] who will be my internet persona for the various projects I've been doing for the last couple of years.

I guess that gave me a bit of a purpose.

[1]=https://99.99999.fyi/ [2]=https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/