Feelings...

It is my belief, as an (amateur) writer, that feelings cannot be portrayed in words: happy, sad, angry, etc. Their very nature prohibits such descriptors. Feelings are complex mental pictures complete with sensory input from all five senses that we create and associate with a variety of stimuli. One doesn't feel "happy" in the two-dimensional sense of the word- one has a certain sensation that one associates with happiness, a location, a color, a smell, a scene- real or imagined. Sometimes this sensation is clearly apparent, other times it is buried, and all that one can grasp is that saying "happy" isn't sufficient.

But sometimes one has to try to write it. So pardon my feeble efforts...