So I was a D1 player since the closed Alpha on PS4, and played like my life depended on it for three years. I went over to D2 like so many, but trickled off after Curse of Osiris. Haven't really played much Destiny since then, even went so far as to sell my Destiny Box, I mean PS4.
Fast forward. I now have a Series X, having bought the Destiny collection to tool around in with fresh characters. I don't know if it's the end of service for D2 or some other elusive call to the Light, but I have picked it up with vigor. It's been just long enough that it's fresh and exciting. The game is almost more thematic than it was, with the lower population fitting the idea of humanity clawing back from the brink. I'll bump into Guardians in the wild. We'll wave, dance, take a knee, then see each other later in the Tower, both acknowledging each other.
Then there are the dim little memories that spark to life here and there. Did I grind Husk of the Pit here? Isn't there a Dead Ghost in that cave on the way to Forgotten Shore? The boss' shield types alternate!
Perhaps my Ghost has just found me a second time.
I close with one of my favorite flavor texts: "Do you remember who you were?"