u/Capable_Trick_455

I met this revert to islam this year and he reminded me of something I completely forgot about, to not be too close to the disbelievers. I thought it wasn't too bad until I realized a lot of the bad things in my life happened because of being around disbelievers. I've had the most troubles with having them inside a friend group.

Though not compete disbelievers, I picked up a horrible habit of watching haram content from them, although some of it was my fault. It entirely warped the innocent person I was and I wish I never took them as friends. How could anyone lure someone into this, I tell anyone who hasn't to stay the hell away from it at all costs.

After I turned 20 I don't really want to get along with people I knew from that previous era of my life. I've completely stopped engaging in social media with them. Obviously I feel more lonely but more at peace. I think this is the way the rest of my life will go.

I hope this solitude helps me seek refuge in God.

When I was in high school, I pledged to archive every single server, group chat, and dm in order to create a time capsule of myself to see in later years. It's been well over 4 years since and I cannot begin to fathom all of the data I have saved. It's makes me realize I probably won't remember much of my current time at university.

Anyways, I kind of got an irrational fear of losing it all due to losing access to the computer or the hard-drive breaking all of a sudden. Either are pretty unlikely. Might just be some anxiety from other parts of my life creeping in.

I want it off my computer because I keep getting addicted to nostalgia by reliving the glory days, seeing how 'good' life was back then.

I don't want to pay a monthly subscription for cloud storage just for this.

I was thinking of buying external storage and putting everything in there so it feels disconnected with my life now, a bit more like a physical memory album that I'll have access to whenever.

I'm also thinking of saving literally just the text files and none of the image or video files somewhere, it would probably take up 50-100 mb instead of 160 gb.

I really don't know what the solution is I'm just looking for opinions. I feel like I grew as a person and I don't want to be reminded of that part of my life constantly anymore.