How?

How can I explain how it feels to hear her like she was this afternoon? She was up and lively and vivacious and laughing and just... her. Exactly like she should be and always was - before. It's impossible, without sounding cliche' or using just overly exaggerated hyperbole to explain how she makes me feel, how it makes me feel to hear her so up. How good it feels just to have her attention just for a few short minutes.

I can't tell her how good this makes me feel. Nor can I tell her how upset I am when she tells me that she isn't sleeping or that she (or they) had a bad night. It matters to me how she feels and what she's thinking about, where her head is, what her emotional state is. It's important to me. When she laughs, I can hear her face light up. When she's focused, I can hear the intensity in her voice. When she's distant from me, I can hear and feel and taste and smell it and feel the crushing weight of her distance.