September, 2016:

Z: How’s the world going to end?

J: Well, the sun will probably turn into a red giant and engulf us.

Z: What?

J: Although there’s lots of other thing that could happen – man made disasters, or a meteor could hit the earth. That would wipe us out. The earth would still be here, though, so it wouldn’t really be the end of the world.

Z starts to cry.

Me: J, you’re freaking the kid out.

J: It’s okay, buddy.

Z: I don’t want the world to end!

J: Don’t worry. We’ll all be long gone when it happens.

Z: THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO END!

J: I don’t know how to handle this.

Me: By the time it happens we’ll have spaceships to fly to another planet.

J: Spaceships are cool, right?

Z: Noooooooooo!

J: Fine. The world isn’t going to end. Ever.

You heard it here first, kids.

Dublin, 2015.  Bubbles are cool.  Big bubbles are more cool.