The question
What does love feel like?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.
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My marriage has not been a drudge. But in 29 years there are times where it's not all excitement, thunderbolts and shooting stars. You have to think, 'I like you and I rate you,' and you'll ride it out.
Michael Odell, This much I know, The Observer, 14 August 2004 source ↗
Completely nuts.
Uncontrollable, wonderful.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
Being completely still.
I hope that it exists. I'm not sure I can fit everything in before then.
Sitting down to supper with family and close friends, either in my garden or on my boat.
That I have lost both my parents.
I try to be a Sherlock Holmes of botany. It's not enough to enjoy plants – I want to know why they are wilting, to work things out.
I like moronic jobs like mowing. I like looking back and admiring the stripes I've created on the lawn.
I wish I could ban noise. Mobile phones. Aircraft. We should take our time. Why is everyone rushing?
Jacqueline Novogratz, Andrea Riseborough, Olly Alexander, Richard Ford, Jack Davenport, Cressida Cowell
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