After Seeing These 24 Photos, You'll Understand How Terrible Time Is

Time is intangible and impossible to grasp, yet it seems to be always around us; no matter how we move or sleep, it flows by, second by second. Ultimately, it will lead us to our end, regardless of whether we cherish it or not.

Some netizens' photos of time's traces evoked a profound sense of emotion...

Let's all feel the passage of time!

A street in the Netherlands, where someone left a bicycle unattended and it was eventually overtaken by plants over time.

A cat habitually scratches its paws on the same leg of a bench for ten years now.

An old great white shark, from World War I…

A boy left his hometown to fight on the battlefield at that time, locking his bicycle to a tree before never returning.

Twenty years later, at the same location, weeds thrived and people came and went.

Time is the cruelest, because it makes us grow old unconsciously, and when we wake up, half of our lives are gone.

A football abandoned in the forest, covered in moss, from many years ago.

The confrontation between nature and civilization, even if humans boast of their civilization, cannot withstand the power of nature.

Sandbags used in the war ninety-five years ago have now turned into solid stone.

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Many years ago, people placed two stones under a tree to prevent it from growing horizontally and to knock down a stone wall.

Many years later, these two stones had become part of the tree.

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Outside the neon sign of a popular music club in New Orleans, people used nails to fix concert posters, but forty years later, there was no place to fix posters.

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A Romanian abandoned synagogue, human rest is temporary, everything returns to nature.

Two photos separated by only one year, look at the changes in the dog!

The airflow near the exhaust pipe of a building caused the trees on the sidewalk to bend.

A World War II trench from 1995.

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