Séamas O'Reilly: My 'year shape' has corners — but I learned I'm just as weird as everyone else
Séamas O'Reilly: "fascinating glances into the inner workings of a thousand strangers". Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan
As September approaches, I’m once again reminded of a weird facet of my brain — my year has corners.
August to September is not, in my mind, a straight line, but the rounding of a 90-degree angle that brings me to an entirely new phase of the year. Another juncture occurs from December to January, and one so pronounced that the month between, say, December 15th and January 15th, feels intrinsically different to the month between January 15th and February 15th. July and August are on their own plane, which takes us to the approaching event horizon of September and the hard corner I can see in front of me as we speak.
