Why It’s So Hard To Say How You Feel
Words are more powerful than we realize.
Every piece of writing is an act of faith. Specifically, it is faith that what one privately experiences others privately experience as well. And what is more private than those words we say to ourselves within the dark of our mind but never say aloud?
Silence
I have seen in the eyes of others a yearning that I know well from personal experience. In some tender moment, their eyes water up, as if the emotions were literally teeming inside of them. The mouth opens to speak, but the tongue misfires. A silence persists that points to the missing note. The two parties still understand one another, or mostly understand one another, but the moment is left with more emptiness than fullness. These are the unmistakable signs of the desire to say how you feel though you find yourself incapable of giving utterance to it.
Physical affection might come with little effort, and one can easily get away with a terse “I love you” or “I miss you,” especially when it is expected or said in return, but that deeper well of thought and feeling, which if expressed would give body to the true zeal of the affection felt within, is often far too large and powerful to pull out of ourselves. Why is it sometimes so impossibly difficult to say what we feel? This…
