It is not difficult to make a thing permanent. 

We have come close.

Ancient stone giants were created with technologico primitavo.

Yet permanency is incompatible with change.   Permanency loses.

What appeared to last longest is that which did not change or very little.

Art was but the permanent capture of a changing condition.

Now we have learned to remember not the permanent but the

change.

It was not meant for us to be permanent. 

Would not serve the manifest aim.

Everything of us indicates designed change and an end.

If  there was a creator It could have made us permanent.
We would not have made us permanent.

What we value now is controlled change, process. Anything permanent becomes an obstacle like old commodore computers or analog cellphones.  Its the designer not the steps it takes  that is the story. It will give the longest life to those structures it needs the most like trees.

Trees are permanent.

We were made and meant to die.

Fire teaches alot.

Nothing ever survived.