Great! Meaning is spot on! It just sounds a little bit "stilted".

Change "crane" to "stretch", as crane doesn´t work in this context.

Then you could just make it flow a bit better:

Life is strange: sometimes people who you thought were so high up that you cannot reach them may actually be so low that you cannot stoop low enough to reach them.

Or:

Life is strange: sometimes people who you thought were so exalted that you cannot reach them may actually be so low that you cannot stoop low enough to reach them.

When there are so many bits missing, like most txtspk, you just have to add things!!!

şafak

we old fogeys always used grief-giver or even troublemaker.

Learned a new one, thanks!

To play basketball: basketbol oynamak

I often get the same problem when Abla and scalpel are replying to each other´s posts. Shame, because they write such great stuff

... çıkmak : to become, to turn out to be

You too have turned out to be a slag

After that you can only look at me from afar!

Agree.

17. is the short form for onyedinci = seventeenth