viewNow, what if I really want to be vague because that's the only way to describe my feelings, for my love is surreal and abstract?
First, you describe your feeling: “I love the way he carries his sadness”.
Then you explain it with an example in great detail of how his trait shows up in reality.
That way, the purpose of your writing is communication. You tell someone your story because you want to share how you feel and what happened. And that’s authenticity.
As opposed to being vague all the time with “I'm 14 and this is deep” vibe, where the purpose is to tell people that you are more sophisticated than the normies. Which is narcissism.
But, you also have another option.
What you wanted is to say the same thing, “I love the way he carries his sadness”.
Then you go about your daily life. You do something else. You talk about other people. You forget about it.
Then, after several chapters if it is a novel, or after several paragraphs if it’s a long essay, you describe that same story in great detail that matches with a separate incident right paragraph above, not just out of nowhere. You don’t mention the sadness at all. You don’t describe his emotion. And the reader think “Yes, he is sad”, I can see it right here, not just her.
That way, your purpose is to relate to others. It started with an impression, an intuition with no evidence. And then the evidence unfolded itself unexpectedly, like how it happens in real life.