Starting to feel like recruiting is taking over my life

I've been focused on recruiting for ib since high school, making sure I get into all the right universities, clubs, studying technicals and networking my ass off. But recruiting hasn't gone the best for me this cycle and I'm start to feel like a soulless husk of a person, not being able to think about anything else but recruiting day after day. Is this normal? I realize ib recruitment is said to be especially brutal, but there has to be more than life to this right? 

I can't imagine that just recruiting for ib, then recruiting for pe, then recruiting for mba, then recruiting for hf is all there is to life right after recruiting for undergrad. Where is the learning, living, experiencing new things? I'm dreading what's beginning to feel like an endless treadmill of soulless work. 

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Dude recruiting has literally just started wdym it hasnt been going the best for you lol

 
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