During beginning of 2020 my life made a 180. Places I used to visit closed forever, people I used to hang out with for years disappeared and heavy ass memories about those days still linger in my head and don't let me go on with my life, it feels like a mental anchor.

I often remenice about how good of a times they were, I miss most of those people and realizing shit won't be the same saddens me quite a lot. Thing is, I tried letting it go, but it only works for short periods of time. Is there any permanent ways of forgetting about shit and just live forward?