Negligence can ruin all your hardwork

Now this wasn’t a hack attempt but, as a result of my own negligence that would have proven very costly.

When I joined the forum, I experienced an unforseen difficulty which turned out to be the norm for most new users here. This i expressed in a post I made about Evil fee (Safe means please and Evil IP).
At this point, I already had some triers with what I had then as intended details without success so, I had to proceed with just anything that came to mind.

Now, some of the things I did wrong was:
1. Completely randomizing my mail address as, i noticed from other triers that, verification mails wasn’t sent so, I used a throwaway mail address.
2. My password was completely picked at random as, it was supposed to be temporal.
3. I didn't have the mail address logged in on my device.

Why am I on this narrative;
Earlier today I woke up to what seemed like a nightmare. I tried logging into the forum as I’ve been inactive for a couple of days and as a result, my browser already logged me out.
After inputting my username, I typed in my password and it came out incorrect. I tried a different combination and it still was incorrect. At this point, I knew I was in for real trouble.
I proceeded to get a notepa, wrote down all I thought could be the right combination, input each of them and each time, it came out as incorrect. After a good number of triers, by default the site sent a mail for password reset as, password recovery was off the books but, I didn't have the mail address logged in. I proceeded to try other combinations until I was told to have exceeded my allowed number of logins and should check back later.

At this point, I was completely exhausted and had to take some rest, it was already 14 O'clock. I later woke up, thought of things I could have done differently and means to recover my account but, without any insurance in place to prove ownership, I knew my chances if I couldn't arrive at the right combination was almost zero.

When woke about an hour after, I tried again but, I couldn't go for anything different and as such, the password was still incorrect. Then, I went against my will to try what I didn't beleive would be it and then, I was live on my account again. A huge sigh of relief enveloped me in entire. Thoughts of changing the password to something familiar and that which am used to was the next thing but, I chose to be calm and not be hasty about it.

How I got to forget:
I'm not always active here but, am trying to be and the random nature to the details of my account creation wasn't sticky just yet.

What I could have done to avoid this:
1. Proceed to change my details to what isn't picked at random and what I would be familiar with but, I didn't do that at the time.
2. Have my password saved on my devices mail address for auto logins but, this offers a different form of challenge to security and as such, I ignored it.

What have I done to avert this:
1. Create and have a proper mail address to the account.
2. Create a strong password combination.
3. Writing down my important detail to keep it safely.

What am yet to do but find very necessary and would do:
1. Generate, sign and stake a Bitcoin address to this account.

Though this might be out of my care freeness and was yet to discover just how important and attached this account might be for me, I do hope some users here don't and are not making the same mistakes as I did. It feels very terrible to be in that position or having to recall what your not sure off. Don't procrastinate on what need be down and be sure to follow safe means to account security.

Just after concluding this thread, I see a user seeking help on forgotten password on meta. Forgot password. Assistance needed. from the user Ambatman. That's to say, it could happen to anyone and so, there is a need to take precaution.