Today, I feel scared. The news that North Korean agents may have used the VX nerve agent to assassinate the half-brother of North Korea’s leader and that North Korea may have an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach Washington, DC along with a nuclear weapon that is small enough to be the payload in said missile is scary enough. Add to it that I’m severely uncomfortable with what President Trump and his staff are doing; that I do not believe he is capable of handling a crisis like we may soon be facing; that Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, barred journalists from attending his daily news briefing today (source: New York Times) — what are they hiding? — and it’s enough to induce an episode of ice cream eating. I don’t have any ice cream but I do have hot chocolate. Now I feel bloated.
Evidence of a friendly universe: the fear reaction. It helps keep me safe.