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“Do you ever feel like you’re late for your own life?” he asked.

She wanted to argue. She wanted to say that sadness isn't a competition, that grief doesn't hoard all the shadows. But the words turned to mist. They walked home in silence, the wind off the Liffey sharp as a blade. That night, he didn’t stay. The next morning, his toothbrush was gone from her bathroom.

He was sitting on a plastic crate outside the mosque, feeding pigeons from a ripped bag of stale crusts. He moved with a slow, deliberate grace, as if each crumb was a consecration. Aisling stopped. She didn't know why. Maybe it was the way he didn't shoo the birds away, but welcomed the mess of them—the flapping, the cooing, the shit on his trousers. 4 seasons dublin

But spring, in Dublin, is a liar at first. It whispers of warmth, then slaps you with a hailstorm. She walked down Clanbrassil Street, hands shoved in the pockets of her worn coat, not looking for anything. The cherry blossoms on the council-planted trees were tentative, pale pink buds clenched tight against the wind.

Autumn is the season of harvest, but also of rot. She learned that some loves are not meant to survive the frost. They are annuals, not perennials. Beautiful. Brief. True, for their time. “Do you ever feel like you’re late for your own life

On the shortest day, she walked alone through St. Stephen’s Green. The ducks were gone. The flowers were a memory. But the bare trees were beautiful—their black branches intricate as veins, as neural pathways, as the cracks in the heart that let the light in.

“You look like someone who forgot how to feel the rain,” he said, not looking up. His voice was a low gravel, like the Liffey at low tide. But the words turned to mist

Above her, the first stars pricked through the violet dusk. Dublin lay quiet around her, ancient and patient, having seen a thousand seasons come and go. It would see a thousand more. And so, she realised, would she—not because the pain ended, but because she had finally learned to live inside the turning.