I'm One Run Away from Dead God and it's Making me Depressed

I have no idea if this is a common post, but I have to make it anyhow.

I'm one run away from completing my first dead god save file (3 steam achievements left), with just under 650 hours clocked in, and it's making me deeply sad that very soon, the grind will be over.

It's akin to losing a hyperfixation, but of a higher calibre; one that's followed you through your life and has been with you for years.

I remember the euphoria I felt after unlocking my first tainted character, solely because I realized that there was so much more content that I hadn't completed. That it wasn't over.

Yet.

I've played and owned TBOI with all DLC right since around the middle of lockdown. I always knew it would end eventually, and of course, that's life in general, but the sudden realization that it would soon be over, as checkmark after checkmark were slowly and meticulously ticked off, was a jarring and melancholy awakening.

But the end doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. There are other games to play (skong) and I could always try going outside, but it still makes me miserable to think about the fact that I'm about to close the proverbial door of this chapter of my life for good.

And yes, I could always go for two more dead god save files and then buy the game again and go for even more, but it will never be the same as that first save file. It will never evoke that same, finite feeling of wonder, anger, joy, triumph, defeat, placidity, discovery, that the first playthrough offers.

So I guess the point I'm trying to make is to cherish the grind, even Greedier mode and Tainted Lazarus, because one day, it will all be over (I'm noticing far too many parallels to real life in this edmund what have you done).

Sorry you read through my sad musings,

SHAW!