Forever. The concept is foreign to me. Have I been programmed by the deceiver to believe that every forever eventually comes to an end? “O king, live forever.” None of them ever did. Museum specimens of shiny bones of the king of dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus rex, are all that remain of the once-terrible, powerful, and
Time
wondrous lizard. Even the lofty mountains with their craggy peaks inexorably erode away. It’s called weathering. Raindrops, melting snow, ad ice seep into micro fissures, freeze, and fracture even the strongest rock, leading to exfoliation, cracking, and rockslides. The mountains come down a millimeter at a time. Given long periods of time, the rocky mountains, the Alps, and the Himalayas would eventually look like the Appalachians, the Scottish highlands, or the Russian Urals. Allowed even more time, mountain would flatten out and be replaced by new ones pushed up by mountain building processes such as volcanoes and colliding tectonic plates.