Finn Davie, 10

Hopeful fireman

Love is a connection you have with someone, it’s a relationship between you and somebody you extremely like.

I can tell when an adult doesn’t have any love, they look droopy, they are alone. If they do have love they will be happy, walking around with happy and love in them but if they’re not they look droopy and that means they are sad and that they don’t have much love.

I feel sorry for the poor people who are sad, who don’t have any love. If they don’t have a home then they probably don’t have any food and then all the stuff you need gets swept away, it takes your love with you and you feel sad, that’s the opposite of Valentines Day. Love is bigger than money.

Love connects us together. It is an experience for us to have. When no-one plays with you and you feel lonely that is also the opposite of Valentines Day. I’ve felt like that at school sometimes. It is sad but I don’t care because I have resilience. I daydream about Star

Wars and inside me I have love from all my family.

Family is most important. Family has a connection and we all must love and respect each other. Sometimes my little sister and I disagree and I say ‘‘I love you too much to argue’’ because I do.

Love hurts sometimes, too. Me and my sister and brother once had an adorable, cute little bunny named Jetstar. Whenever I was sad I would sit on her hutch and talk to her. First I would give her something to eat and then I would say ‘‘Jetstar, what do I do?’’ and she would look up at me and I didn’t know whether she was looking at me like ‘‘do you have more food?’’ or if she was trying to tell me something.

When she died I felt something I’d never felt before. It feels so cold. One minute they are there and you hug and love them, then they are not there. Gone. When I look in her hutch now she isn’t there but she is there, still connecting the love that we once had and still have.

I have a twin brother and there is no other connection like it. We are literally one human being combined into two, literally. Sure there are differences but it’s another representation of love and two people being one.

Love is a funny feeling inside you. Laughter is a mascot for happiness and love.

If you are alone and don’t have any love you need to meet people you don’t know and make new connections. You should find a friend that has something in common with you, a little piece of you in them that connects you together in friendship.

It doesn’t matter who you love, just that you give it. We must have love for every other thing on the planet, plants, animals and other things there before us.

Also, I love pizza – to me that is a connection which can never be broken.

As told to mum, Vicki Anderson.