Words Will Always Fail Our True Feelings
"The Dao that can be described in language is not the constant Dao; the name that can be given it is not its constant name" - Tao Te Ching
Do you ever get the feeling you can never quite say what is truly in your heart? How it seems the most applicable expression, also seems the most redundant?
When someone who means so much to you, words begin to fail what we truly mean. When we tell our closest friends, family, significant others "I love you", there is a gap. The words "I love you" have been said millions of times across various languages, to me it seems like shorthand.
Emotions are less about the word we say and more about the expression and how we feel said emotion. You feel anger in your jaw, you feel confusion in your head, you feel love in your torso. We put our whole selves into the people we care about. Those are things that words really can't translate adequately.
We may have a feeling that would fall under one word, but that one word has multiple uses. To love someone, they may make you feel like a warm blanket next to a fire on a snowy winter day. Or it may make you feel like in a moment you are the only person they will hear.
In spite of the limitations of language, I want to encourage you to try and go beyond the shorthand. While the words may fail to truly express how you feel, that doesn't mean we can't try.