Everlasting

There they are. Fresh of the press and ready for duty. They are arrayed up with all their brothers ready for duty. One by one they are shipped out into the wild to help people.

Most of them will be used in supermarkets helping people carrying all their groceries. Some are sent out to books stores or hardware shops. Some select ones will store their brothers for future use. But most of them will be discarded. Thrown away to linger. To see time pass. Some will make friends only to see them decay. Others will go for a swim and hitch a ride with one of the many animals, only to be dragged down to the bottom of the ocean. For a few years they stay in the dark. Being ripped apart by the forces that tear at it.

Some will end up with their friends, holding on to each other and all their brothers that were made before them and all their cousins, cursed to float the seas for all eternity watching civilization fall and hoping that the next might be able to relief them from their immortal pain.

Only a select few, have the privilege to find an end and a rebirth in new things, might bring joy in their next live. Yet that chance is slim and regardless of how good they are, regardless of how much they try, it is a pure game of chance. A game most will not win.

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