It does have that religious understanding of eternity.
Both of these pictures are pretty much exactly the same compared to actual infinity/eternity. Entropy might also like to have a word about whether or not eternity is even possible.
Well, entropy is eternal
Entropy is a concept used to describe, calculate and predict natural phenomena, it doesn't physically exist.
kill me so i can rejoin the eternity desert please, i hate waiting for the apocolypse and still having to pay bills in the meantime.
*approximate eternity
Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.
Think of that from another perspective.
Assuming human lifetime to be 70 years:
History is speeding up, and today one human life is enough to witness a change our ancestors wouldn't see in a millennia.
Sure, we are, as always, grains of sand in the desert of eternity, but we are grains that matter. That make a change. Every day.
It took only 8 lives to rise from medieval times to where we are now, and less than one lifetime to transform...everything.
It's one thing to know this, but seeing it succinctly like this is rather profound