Has anyone noticed how hard it is to decribe your feelings?

Question

Has anyone noticed how...feelings, like take love for example, are sooo hard to describe. I mean there are endless poems, songs, movies, books, etc about love and everythin, but still each time someone asks you to describe how you feel, you usually need a moment to think and then you say how you feel as best as you can..but theres still a feelin left inside you, like you have so much more to say, but you just cant formulate the words? Or is this just me? lol

Answer 1

I think that there are a couple of reasons for it. One is that most human cultures try to discourage really paying attention to feelings. They change from moment to moment within the same person, as well as from person to person. It's hard to create a common language for a phenomenon that is so subjective past a certain point.
Another is that feelings are on the other side of the human brain from the half that 'does words'. It's part of the reason why paintings, sculpture, music and other art forms can capture and/or communicate feelings so much more clearly and eloquently than words.
Another piece of the answer is that words and logic are relatively recent additions to the human brain, from an evolutionary perspective. (Creationists, you may read that as "God laid down the emotional level of the human brain first and let it set while he worked on the logical and linguistic parts for a while longer.") It's possible for folk to have the logical parts of their brains damaged or removed and they'll still survive, but damage the emotional centers of the brain and you've got yourself a vegetable that happens to be made of meat.

Answer 2

The descriptions are after the fact abstractions mediated by symbols (words), but the feelings themselves are ineffably im-mediate. Descriptions are always "too late". By the time they're formulated and expressed the im-mediate stuff is already something else, so it's actually generally better to "stfu" and thus not dwell on past descriptions, and therein enjoy the im-mediate ride.

Answer 3

words are too limited to fully describe something as intricate as human emotion. just look at the word "so" in your question. you used 3 o's just to stress the level of difficulty in describing emotion, and still have the "feelin left inside" of not quite gotten it right.

Answer 4

You must feel very deeply. That's a good thing. Except that when you get hurt you will feel that more deeply as well. You are right about expressing feelings though. Some people may feel that expressing exactly how they feel will leave them vunerable.

Answer 5

ya...it's true..only u, urself can feel ur feelings..no matter in what way u describe it or in what language u describe it...only u are the one can feel it...that's one of the god creation of human.

That is why "only u are the one who is responsible for ur hapiness, sadness, success...etc".....

"no one can make u feel inferior without ur permission"...

Answer 6

No it is not just you, describe yourself its a hard question..........

Answer 7

it affects every body