Emotions - Alex’s Answer
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I feel like there is no way for people to truly understand what people mean when they explain certain complex emotions. Some, however, are quite easy to understand and I think this is what creates part of this relationship that we feel with other people. We may not know much about someone, but when they describe happiness we understand. Sadness is the same it is something inside us hardwired for all human beings.
Things such as love are different. Everyone’s perception of love for a brother, sister, parent, etc. is essentially the same and this feeling is hardwired too. I think the love that so often frightens people is different. People try to associate these feelings they are having for new people with these feelings of unconditional love they have for family and close friends. They know something is different though, they just can’t quite figure it out.
I think a person’s idea of love is truly unique, because it is how they relate these new feelings with this hardwired unconditional love. No two people can make this connection in exactly the same way although it might be similar. That is one reason I think it frightens people so much is they can tell something is familiar, but there is also a difference there. They can’t ever quite place that difference and that is why no two people can ever have the same idea of love, no matter how similar the ideas are.
This doesn’t just apply to love. There are a lot of emotions that people can’t quite place and can’t communicate, because their idea of it is based on their own life experiences. It is what they make it. Language is an attempt to convey these ideas, but putting a word to mean something so complex just isn’t possible. There are definitely basic emotions which can be, that people just know inside. Others, however, can never be fully expressed with 100% clarity, no matter how hard one tries
