A famed American investor who over the two decades from 1980 handed his clients average returns of 25% a year. By 1998 he was overseeing $21bn. His fund determinedly avoided the dotcom mania, and by March 30th 2000 withdrawals had forced him to close it. As it turned out, the NASDAQ bubble had burst just two days earlier.
Your best consolation is the hope that the things you failed to get weren't really worth having.