Goodbye, Portable Hard Drive

In one careless moment, my portable hard drive left me.

Two years of savings, 40GB of data — all gone.

Painful. Heartbreaking. Regretful.

But what’s lost is lost. It can never be recovered. I have to start over.

Besides, what’s lost is the past; what remains is the沉淀 (accumulation).

The code I wrote is gone, but the patterns, architecture, ideas, and methods stay in my mind forever. The photos I took are gone, but I still live among the people in those photos. The resumes I wrote are gone, but my life experience keeps growing. The materials I downloaded are gone, but the Internet keeps expanding…

Let the lost be lost.

Everything is just beginning.