#Fiction Monday (28) - (G)old - (Aur) Vechi

This game is hosted by Vinitha Dileep, on her blog  'Reflections' and I discovered it on Esha's  blog. This time  the word prompt is 'OLD'.

 

It becomes interesting how ideas work when I see the new prompt of this game. They seem to be somehow triggers that switch on various paths and I admit that it is very difficult for me to choose: How old is the Universe? How old is our planet Earth? How old are our roots? Do we (still) feel them? We like to see or be surrounded by old things and their energies? What old means in the context of theories that suggest that time is an illusion? I notice that this word is part of another one: gold. An interesting English metaphor…! Humanity has left so man...