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Work is busy, the house is loud, and your phone doesn’t stop.
One child needs to be at training, another has a match across town, and there are five different WhatsApp groups pinging at once about times, lifts, and last-minute changes. In between, there are school emails, CAO forms, Leaving Cert talk.

Throughout our lives, we build many unique relationships with others. By nature, we all want to feel loved and supported.

You start one thing, get pulled into something else, and before you know it the morning is gone and you’re not quite sure where it went. There’s a message to reply to, something on the long finger, dinner somewhere in the back of your mind, and another thing you meant to get back to yesterday.

There’s often a quiet pressure to have a plan. To know what you’re doing, where you’re going, and how it’s all going to work out. You see it everywhere, people who seem clear, settled, certain of their next steps. But most days don’t actually feel like that.

You are stirring the bolognese, replying to messages, checking emails, going over schedules and medical appointments, all at the same time. Somewhere in the middle of it, the thought crosses your mind, I should just clone myself.