This is real life...

Today has seen me swimming with emotion and tears. Hormones? I doubt it, that universal excuse doesnt wash with me. Stress? Perhaps, but that seems too simple. I just cant juggle all these plates any longer without something getting broken.

I have reached the age where things start going wrong, phone calls from distant friends and relations no longer bring party invites and catch ups, but news of illness or disaster. 

This week came news of the first divorce, and people are moving onto their second partners, so things are becoming more "real" not just the stuff of books/magazines/tv.

This is real life.