How the Right Words Help Us to Feel the Right Things

‘The right words break our isolation, they are the agents of and conduits to – love.’

I’m a big fan of Alain de Botton’s The School of Life videos. How the Right Words Help Us to Feel the Right Things is informative, entertaining and beautifully animated by Antonio Vicentini. The visuals in this video wonderfully support the message of it and are very inspiring in their combination of simplicity and movement.

The theme explored is one that talks of how the right words help us to know ourselves and aid us in more accurately exploring and understanding our feelings and inner life. It also talks about how certain words and the feelings that are connected to them are language specific. 

The question is do we even experience feelings that our own language lacks words for or are those feelings simply less identifiable and recognisable to ourselves and in our communication to others about them?