Love: Feeling, Freedom or Fantasy?

I really don’t think love ever stops, or goes away (as much as people like to pretend it does) - I think it just changes shape. You’ll always love people - once that feeling starts, there’s nothing you can do to change it. You may start loving someone as a partner, but end up loving them as a friend. While that is painful, it’s always vital to remember that it is better to have loved someone and lost them, than to have never loved them in the first place.

Alice Lumley

To me, love is impossible to pinpoint to one moment, person or place. As Hugh Grant quotes in Love Actually “love actually is all around”. It’s in all parts of my life, from laughing so hard that my stomach hurts with my friends, my mum texting me to ‘get home safe’ or my dogs tails wagging when they greet me. It’s the little things like drunk calls, hearting a text message or sharing a Spotify playlist. Love to me is everyone in my past, present and future.

Grace Dawson

Love for me has been defined by the love of a best friend. Mine has been a love affair going on 7 years, one that is unconditional yet honest, up and down yet easy. The comfort in having someone to go to an event and go home with, someone who’s seen me strike out and get lucky in all aspects, and someone who weathers whatever life (or you) throws at them is unparalleled. To know that I have that kind of love is one of the greatest joys of my life.

Dominic Bramley-Carr