27M, good salary but feeling completely empty after what happened

I’m a 27M earning around ₹1.5 lakhs per month. From the outside, life probably looks fine. But honestly, deep down I don’t even know what the purpose of life is anymore.

At this point, I’m not really interested in anything or anyone. I just work, eat, sleep, repeat. I don’t feel like socializing. In fact, lately I feel like I’ve started hating being around people.

Things got worse after I met a girl — she’s my uncle’s daughter. Initially, I wasn’t even that interested. But both our families started talking about marriage, so I thought I should at least understand if she was interested.

To my surprise, she said yes at first. We spoke for almost two months. I even skipped work sometimes just to talk to her. Slowly, I got emotionally attached.

Then one day she told me she had been in love with another guy. During that conversation she said it was already over between them, so I didn’t think much of it and continued talking to her.

After some time, she suddenly said she wasn’t interested in marriage and wanted to stop. I was already attached by then, but I respected it.

Then came the real shock.

She sent me a picture of her with the same “ex” she claimed she had broken up with. I was completely shattered. I went into a deep depressive phase.

What hurts the most is — if she was in love with someone else, why not say it clearly in the beginning? None of this would have happened. She gave me hope when I wasn’t even that interested initially… and now I’m the one left feeling like a complete fool.

Last week I even saw her in person with her boyfriend. That moment hit really hard.

I honestly don’t know why all of this happened to me. Right now I just feel empty and lost.