TIFU by forgetting where I stored my favourite picture of me and my gf.

So technically this has been an ongoing thing but it’s finally concluded today.

A few years ago a friend got an incredible picture of me and my girlfriend while we were chilling on the grass while we were still students. In the pic, she’s sitting cross legged. I’m laying on my back on the grass with my head in her lap, looking up at her. She’s holding my face. And we’re looking at each other and smiling (although you can hardly see our faces).

A friend who was with us snapped a picture and it’s just such a perfect natural moment that we never expected to be captured. It’s both of our favourite pictures of each other.

We both had it saved at once point, but you know how it goes. You swap phones, hard drives and USBs get forgotten about, and so on. But neither of us know where we each saved the pic.

I remember the last time I saw it I saved it in multiple places and I thought to myself, “Alright self, I’m going to put it here so it’s safe, easy to find, and so that I never lose it again and never forget where it is.”

Lo and behold, I forgot where it I saved it. And we’ve both been looking for it for years. It comes up every now and then. Just 2 weeks ago she was like “Hey do you remember that picture? You still have it? Please send it to me I love that picture of us”
And I had to explain that I put it in a place so safe that even I can’t find it lol.

The amount of time I have spent scrolling through hard drives, looking for long lost microSD cards trying to find the one from the phone I had at the time. Trying to revive that phone (it’s dead now. Won’t start). All trying to find this picture. I eventually had to accept that it might never be found.

Well internet. I just found it. Guess where it was?

It’s. On. My. DESKTOP!

OF ALL PLACES. Haha. Lol.

I guess the title could have been TIFU by not realising what I was looking for has been right in front of me all along.
This was my main laptop for years. It broke. I got a new one to use for work. Then fixed this one and use it mainly for watching movies and stuff. But still that’s around 3 times a week. She’s seen the desktop many much times as well.

It just faded in. Neither of us noticed it. Until about 10min ago when I deleted a software and saw it next to the now-empty slot. If emojis weren’t “banned” on Reddit, I’d put a bunch of skulls here.

TL;DR: My girlfriend and I both forgot where we each individually stored our favourite picture of us and it’s been missing for years. I found my storage spot today. On my desktop. Right in front of my face.