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 intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
Warm and embracing.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
It feels like all is possible.
Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
Possible dementia.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.
To everyone I’ve bored.
A teacher and a nightclub singer.
Roger Taylor, Sara Cox, Ann Patchett, Andrew Ridgeley, Kate Humble, Jon Sopel
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