I waited five years for a stalactite to grow an inch, and it changed my view on time.

Saw a documentary about cave formation once. They said some of those structures take over a hundred years to grow just the length of a finger. It really makes you realize how short our own timeline is, and how most of what we worry about day to day doesn't matter much in the long run.

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davis.jenny6mo ago

Yeah like @wood.zara said about our frantic lives, it's wild that we build whole societies on schedules the planet itself would just ignore.

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wood.zara6mo ago

Saw something about how they date those formations by how slow they grow. The longest ones in deep caves might add less than a human hair's width each year. Puts our whole frantic lives into a stupid kind of focus. We get upset over a slow grocery line or a traffic jam that costs us ten minutes. Meanwhile the cave doesn't care, it's on a clock we can't even see. All our rushing around looks pretty silly next to that.

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