Question: Has anyone checked out on life, started again and found true purpose and meaning with new work, people and friends?
Answer: I am not sure what “checked out in life” means. But we can enter a new environment, find a true purpose, work among new friends any moment.
In fact a true Human purpose, confident progress towards that purpose, successful, happy life is impossible without a purposeful, mutually supportive and mutually complementing environment.
Thus I think instead of “checking out” of anything we need to “check in” to the right environment.
Entering The Force-Field 