As the sound of a gun cocking back strikes your ears, you take one last look at your message. You pray for something. Friends, family, gods, any message to help soothe the aching pain and thoughts ringing throughout your mind. But you know your answer to this pain, and it lies in your hand. As you slowly raise your hand towards your head, you open your eyes one last time to the glaring sun shining through the window. Perhaps that was the message you were looking for, but you've already made up your mind. As you close your eyes and slowly tense your finger, you suddenly hear a voice.

"Bro how did you miss your golden gun??"

you hear several other voices.

"Average hunter main," "aint no way bro there's a fatass div bubble," "kick him gg"

all of a sudden, you're watching yourself play Destiny 2 with friends. back when life was easier, you feel a smile slowly building up.

As you and your friends are fighting Taniks in Deep Stone Crypt, almost like a slideshow, you see you and your friends conquering Riven in Last Wish, Atheon in Vault of Glass, Rhulk within the Vow of the Disciple, and even defeating the Witness in Salvation's Edge. During the day, you would find yourself thinking about playing Destiny with friends as soon as you get back home. Thinking about different builds, weapons, watching guides, content creators, you felt truly invested in the game that you really love and enjoy.

You look back to when Pantheon was first introduced. It was one of the most difficult challenges that really tested your patience. And yet, regardless of it being one of the hardest things you've ever done within the game, it also held the most memorable and fun times within your career. For you, it was more than just a game. Spending time with friends that you could really trust, being able to completely isolate yourself from the world, dedicating yourself to always do your best, and the list goes on and on.

You feel something hot running down your cheek... your screen turns black and you see your reflection. Your smile glistening as you taste the saltiness of your tears. Why did this ever end? The joy of being able to get your friends on for some raids were some of the most genuinely exciting moments of your week.

your hearing slowly diminishes more and more as the laughing and banter turns into a deep mellow silence. you try to turn on your pc, but it wont turn on. you miss raiding. you miss spending time with your friends in the game you used to enjoy. you start to frantically press the power button over and over and over and over but it wont turn on. frustration and anger fill your mind as you try everything. unplug and replug the power cable, check the power sockets, until suddenly, it switches on. you feel at ease with the familiar RGB lighting up your room as you sit down and stare at the monitor. except this time it doesn't show destiny anymore.

its a reflection of you. your computer is sending you a message. it was never the game that got old. it was you. the game never changed, the weapons, the raids and dungeons, no. it was all you.

you thought you knew all about yourself, your life, everything. you knew nothing. you know nothing. you are nothing.

as you try and beg and scream for forgiveness, you're left with no answer. your life starts flashing before your eyes as you're no longer a part of your body as the only thing you can feel is the visions blinding your eyes as you start to fall backwards and backwards and backwards and backwards and backwards and backwards over and over and over and over and over

the sole image of you and your past burns into the retina of your eye as you think your last thoughts. your breath suddenly taken away as if being punched in the gut, your throat closes up on you like a tight knot as you lay in silence, accepting that your life as it is now was a manifestation of your conscience. you closed yourself up because you thought it was the right choice. you let yourself become a failure. it was never forced; it was a choice. but not just one. a series of choices that you made that created the version of you as you are now.

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