The Enormity of Language

I do not believe that language can capture the enormity of experience because experience takes five senses to absorb and language cannot recreate the five senses accurately. For example, nobody can know exactly what its like what to stand on top of Mount Everest by listening or reading someone's story about it. If language could capture experience perfectly then what would be the point in traveling the world and seeing all it has to offer.

Language does give a close approximation of experience, but it can not recreate the entire feeling. Language is the best approximation we have though, without being able to actually experience certain things listening to someone tell a story about their personal experience is fun. The excitement in a person's voice as the tell their favorite story about what they have done in their life is great, but nothing can recreate the feeling of walking through completely abandoned castles in Ireland.

Although language is the closest thing we have to experiencing what other people have, nothing can recreate the feeling of experiencing life.