Roger, W4AYO, once said to me: if ham radio could be understood in a day it wouldn’t be any fun.
It’s like the sound the golf ball makes when it goes in the cup, certain things bring you back. For me, I remember talking to the guy driving down the highway in Tanzania was memorable. Another was the guy calling CQ on 40m. Turns out he just got his ticket and put a mobile HF in his truck. He was clear as a bell, so I responded. He said he was driving around Dallas and asked if I were in Dallas too. I said, nope, I’m in central NC. He shouted, “WHAT??? North Carolina? As I said, I’m new to this”. The power of a lightbulb, a wire strung up in a tree and I had a conversation with a guy almost 1,200 miles away. Pure magic.