How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)

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I've always being an atheist so it's a bit different for me.

However, here's two things which hopefully will be worth some thought:

1) You haven't lost anything. You were just given false information about what you had. You're still the same person, and whatever "effects" religion had can be achieved just as well, if not better, in other ways. God is part of you. It always has been. It's just other theists haven't realised this fact yet.

2) I would consider it a narrow escape to find out this is actually the one and only life (in all likelihood). Imagine the alternative. Coasting through this life, always thinking it's just the warm up act for the real existence. What a waste. The sooner you realise this is your one shot, the more you can make of it. Life has value precisely because it is finite. What value does it have as a weird trial for some bored sky daddy?