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 everything is in high definition, and life is on your side.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 May 2025 source ↗
Warmth and confidence.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
Having music for limbs.
In some way your life is doubled. You’re you and the other person.
A business-class flight. Pure indulgence.
Anyone whose party I said I’d go to and didn’t turn up. I can get quite socially anxious at times.
In a rehearsal just after graduating from drama college, I say my lines to an older actor. He pauses, turns to the director and says: “I’m sorry, but is she going to do it like that?”
Not being flexible enough to dance freely.
I’m quite scared of bats. I’m just seeing rats with wings – no, thanks.
Probably watching some poor abandoned cat or dog being nursed back to life by a stranger on YouTube.
Rita Wilson, Clive Myrie, Clare Bailey Mosley, Gloria Estefan, Hayley Squires, Joseph Fiennes
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