The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
A deep awareness of all things beautiful and painful.
A continuous in-breath.
Loss of control.
A perfect cup of coffee – warm, bittersweet, anxiety-inducing and delicious.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
For bringing positivity to people.
Gloria Hunniford’s wedding at Hever Castle 20-odd years ago. We had a lovely buffet and a few drinks and then I had to get a cab back to the train station. I said to the driver: “I’m ever so sorry, but I’m not going to be able to hang on till I get to the train. Could you possibly take me down this alleyway?” He said: “Yes, of course.” As I prepared myself to go “to the ladies”, this police car came along and the policeman said: “Hi-de-Hi!”
Stay out of other people’s business.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
People who aren’t kind enough.
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