the emotion-speech barrier

There is always this barrier when we are talking about our internal and mental state to each other. So much I believe gets lost when we try to fit our feeling in a box. As soon as we label our emotion almost all the colour it has disappears and the feeling becomes a black and white picture. Our words are very insufficient at representing that bright beautiful portrayal. Even worse is when we hand this black&white picture to someone else. What we feel when we think of happy, sad or excited is probably very different from what someone else is feeling. So, your black&white picture probably looks different in the hands of that other person than in your hands.