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On a cosmic scale, I find it kind of comforting that everything is eventually going to be gone. It makes it more important to enjoy one's time in the now.
The problem with this idea is that everything was already gone before the universe started, and here we are.
It could still be "gone" in the sense that nothing of this universe exists in its present state. Maybe it will collapse in on itself and a new Big Stretch will occur, and a new universe with new physical laws and new matter/energy will begin.
Maybe that's how it's always been. But whether it is finite or infinite, cyclical or linear, we will most certainly end, and that's a good enough reason to live in the moment.