I found a piece of paper containing random words while doing some spring cleaning

I'm new to crypto. How new? I started properly investing in 2021. Of course, I've heard of cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, and a few others over the last few years.

So recently, I found a piece of paper tucked away between books at home, with random words and it hit me, could this be a the seed phrases for a wallet?

How could this be possible? I haven't bought into crypto before this year, or at least i dont remember buying in. My mind starts racing. Holy shit I'd be rich as fuck if my younger self bought some BTC and forgot about it. I could get that PS5 upgrade, I could quit my job, I could eat fancier dollar store ramen.

Okay, I decide then to calm myself down and started looking through my old phone for any wallet apps. I look through my PC for any wallet apps. Nothing.

So i decided to do some googling and looked for any desktop wallet names I recognize. Only 2 prominent ones stood out, electrum & exodus. Great, I've heard of those well before i started investing in crypto. I start a search on my PC for any dat files.

And there it was. A wallet.dat file hidden away in an archived electrum folder. Thank fuck i dont delete old files.

I start sweating even more.

I enter the seed phrases and lo it accepts it. I'm brought to the balances page and it shows that my portfolio is worth is mind blowing $0.

Turns out I'd heard of crypto long ago and created a wallet to buy. And ended up not getting any. Younger me will be kicking myself right now if he could.

So I'll be sticking to my PS4, I'll be keeping my job, and I'll continue eating regular instant noodles.

So i guess this is a good reminder. Save your seed phrases somewhere safe, if you forget about it, you might have some life changing money! Or not...