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.
Safety, and being able to be completely yourself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗
I’m trying to figure out how to receive unconditional love. That’s hard to do when you’ve never really had it, so I’m trying to navigate that.
Like having a foundation.
Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.
A chihuahua giving you a cuddle.
Antiques and art – I collect 17th‑century portraits.
I changed my mind on airing my views. Sometimes silence is better.
To be led by love and not judgment.
The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.
I campaigned for a creative industry regulatory body, and that’s now happening in the next 18 months. It’s called CIISA [Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority]. I’m proud that I set the ball rolling and dared to challenge the establishment.
Without naming names, some people I’ve put a lot of faith and trust and love into.
Isabel Allende, Imogen Poots, Big Narstie, James Dyson, Sally Lindsay, Sarah Hadland
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