Hey OP,

My story is very similar to yours. I discovered Crypto in 2013 but didn't have much money to invest so I learnt about mining. I j this forum in Nov 2013 and bought a lot of old equipment. I had a lot of fun with it back then. Unfortunately I left this forum after a year when I got into trading. I did that for a couple of years but I wasn't very good and life got in the way. I forgot about Crypto for a while and got into matched betting. Fast forward and a lot has changed for me. Someone I work with suggested we should use some spare space at work to mine Crypto as a joke and that brought back so many memories! I came back here but found my old account had been taken over in a hack and I had been posting in Russian since 2017!
I still hold a few coins with value but most of the ones I held have long since died which is sad to see. Like you I wish I hadn't become distracted and left the scene for better things that didn't work out. Slow and steady would have won that race but we can always start again.
I wish you luck and hope you are as happy to be back as I am!