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
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Warm and embracing.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 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 getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
Not feeling like you have to be anywhere else.
When my daughter and my stepdaughters were feeling unhappy, we used to pretend to unlock something in their heart and then pour golden liquid into them, and it always warmed them. For me, that’s what love feels like – a warm feeling inside.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Not being a professional footballer.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
Arrogance and narcissism.
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