Sticking to something for too long becomes a sort of addiction sometimes but how it effects one is something of importance.
Sometimes in life humans become so deeply attached to something that they start feeling them a part of their existence. It gradually becomes an addiction to go closer and closer transcending the barriers and obstacle shunning the intuition that comes along every time. What this sort of addiction or experience gives to soul is simply pleasure but what it takes is either your purpose of core existence or you from yourself.
When it takes away the purpose of existence, the “you” simply becomes irrelevant when the addiction fades away and when it takes you from yourself then in this case you also become irrelevant by sticking to the past, living in fantasies and ignoring the passage of time towards the future.
Basically lack of experience, misunderstanding and wrong interpretations of events in the surrounding lead to such sort of experiences.
The first thing is to identify and accept that this thing is an experience and sticking to it is the fault which will have serious consequences aforementioned (different with the perception).
Here comes the time to listen to the intuitions and making the mind to understand that devotion is not the ultimate objective what you are getting from it and how it’s affecting you is the essence.
In life I believe that when there comes space for something there comes something and following this you become willing to let go and create space for something new and life is a collection of experiences and memories if the memories are bitter they will spoil the imagination.