At least you've never gone through clips on an old digital recorder's SD card and realized that you "wrote" like three Black Sabbath riffs back to back and had started arranging them into a song that already existed before you were born.
When I was younger, I wrote and recorded a song. Pitched it to a label for a release, and realized only some time afterwords that...the song had the same melody and similar chords to a song that was already written.
At least you've never gone through clips on an old digital recorder's SD card and realized that you "wrote" like three Black Sabbath riffs back to back and had started arranging them into a song that already existed before you were born.
I've done worse!
When I was younger, I wrote and recorded a song. Pitched it to a label for a release, and realized only some time afterwords that...the song had the same melody and similar chords to a song that was already written.
By the owner of the label.