8 billion years

I remember reading a book with my dad. Strange Stories and Amazing Facts. I learned from it our sun is a yellow dwarf that will turn into a red giant. the sun cools and swells into a white dwarf and dies. When I went on the family beach trip I told Joe. He got scared because he didn't know 8 billion was so big. I had The End in mind as I grew older. Nothing was as it seemed. Look at the decay. It had to mean something.