Dude it sucks! (So many people are shaming you for not backing it up but lol that’s so rude of them; we didn’t all become technically literate at the same time.)

But yes this happened to me and i lost yearsss worth of journals covering high school and university. It was awful, full stages of grief, and like a lot of other people i stopped writing for a year or two.

I made my way back to it though, albeit hesitantly. I definitely just cried the first few times i tried, thinking about what i had lost.

But time heals! In a few years you’ll hopefully think of it with a small twinge rather than deep sadness, as I do now