What the hell?

About a month ago my kid asks, "Mom, are people ever going to be extinct?" She's 8 and I don't know why she's asking me such a heavy question and I don't  know how to respond. "I don't think so. People have been around a really long time honey."

Truthfully, I think we are getting pretty close to our expiration date. But I can't tell that to an 8 year old in love with candy and puppies and swimming and who wants to take poetry lessons and throw a party with our friends when we "finally" get a girl president and is so god damned near perfect that everytime I look at her I have the urge to pack the three of us up and just go.

Run. Drive. Leave. Hide. Escape.
But here we remain.
Smack dab in the middle of I don't know what the hell anymore.