We grow up. We may fall in love and marry and raise a family. But then the kids grow up and go off on their own. Friends that we have taken decades to develop grow old and die. And every one of us must die.
Nothing remains the same.
In the creation story in the book of Genesis, in the garden the serpent says, ''Oh, you can eat that fruit. That temptation was enough. The people ate. We can get up there and see how the whole world is. It's a powerful temptation, and yet, that's not one of the options that we get.