I earned a bunch of bitcoin back when it was relatively new and cheap. After a while I said eff it and deleted my wallet with 3+ BTC in if because I thought it was going nowhere....I was wrong.
Something's not adding up; you either were amung the very first adopters, or you simply threw away atleast 10$ at the time, which i don't see why anyone would do.
How ever it may be, there's way worse cases than your's; i reckon people who threw btc that wasn't worth much at the time feel way better than those who bought in
at around 1200 and sold at 250, because they lost their stake, not just possible profit. I'm not amung them, but i know few people that did this, insane.
cheers