The horizon bends. Mountains roll into valleys in gentle arcs. Rivers curl across plains in lazy turns. The world itself is a tapestry of curves, loops, and spirals, and through it all runs the silent promise of eternity.

I stand on a hill at dusk, watching the sun descend in a curve along the horizon. Its light arcs through the sky, bending around clouds, scattering across leaves. I realise that time itself follows a spiral path: every day loops back to another, every year returns in subtle echoes, every life touches the next. Eternity is not distant; it is folded into the curves we see, the motions we feel, the patterns we trace without noticing.

In the natural world, curves embody time. The rings of a tree mark decades in concentric spirals. Waves fold and curl along the shore, rising and falling in the same pattern as they have for millennia. Even the smallest leaf follows the same geometries as galaxies, tracing the mathematics of creation in quiet repetition. Every curve contains history, possibility, and endless continuation.

Human life, too, moves along curves. We make plans, set goals, imagine futures, but the spiral reminds us that all endings return. Every memory folds into the present; every choice circles back to influence what comes next. Growth, love, sorrow, joy, none follow a straight line. They spiral, bending time, bending hearts, folding life into layers that endure.

There is solace here. The curve teaches patience, reminding us that change need not be abrupt, that cycles carry wisdom, that life continues even when we cannot see the motion. Nothing is wasted; nothing is lost. Each bend, each loop, each spiral folds eternity into the moment we inhabit.

I trace a leaf with my fingertip, following its gentle spiral to the centre, and in that act, I understand: eternity is not far away. It is here, everywhere, in every curve, every motion, every breath. The spiral never ends. It is eternal.

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