You are Carbon in Sediment
We’ve reached the bottom: a cold, dark, ominous bottom with mountains of water pinning us to the ocean floor. It’s HEAVY: the crumbs of aquatic and terrestrial life slowly press into sand and stone.
Soil, skeleton, and eroded rock have broken down, washed into the sea, then sunk to the bottom. Layer builds upon layer and the weight of the water above slowly compresses this sediment.
Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Sediment
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Locked up for life? Seem like there’s no way out? Might as well harden up and become a bad body-building brick of mountain material. Maybe one day you can break out of this joint and be a peaking mountain. Stick it out as ROCK.
Go through the process of ROCK FORMATION.
At the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water puts extreme pressure on the sediment that has formed from old shells and skeletons of ocean plants and animals. Under pressure, fluids are pushed out and the minerals left behind form a cement that holds the sediment together. Carbon is stored in this newly formed rock.
Lithification/diagenesis
Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Diagenesis#Lithification