When we are the soul, why do we use the phrase ‘my soul’ as in ‘my soul was crying’?

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question we know that we are the soul then why do we often use the word my soul like we say my soul is crying or my soul is miserable answer the word soul is used in two senses in a literal sense where the soul is a being an entity who is the source of life but along with that the word soul is also used to refer to our essence the essence of who we are for example some people may say that charity is the soul of a kshatriya that means the essential aspect of the existence of a kshatriya is that kshatriya should be a charity or somebody says chastity is the soul of a woman now the woman has her own soul but the essence of her being the essential characteristic of a person that is also used to refer to as a soul so for example in the bible it is said love God with all thy heart all thy might and all thy soul so here when the word all thy soul is used then it is used more in a in that metaphorical sense metaphor means something which represents so metaphorical sense to refer to our essence so suppose India loses a world cup final and then the Indian cricket fans say my soul is crying and they have no idea what is the soul they don’t understand the difference between the body and the soul but from their perspective from innermost part of their being they feel that we are totally miserable so that means the soul has a literal meaning that there is a being who is different from the body and I am that being so from that literal point of view the usage my soul is not correct so that should not be used but once we understand that point then in a conversational sense often the word soul is used in that way it’s not that in our normal conversation all the time we say that we don’t differentiate like that for example I may say I am sick I will not necessarily say my body is sick I will say like that so that is understood so like that in a conversational sense sometimes when people want to refer to the essence of their being at that time they use the word soul and even in devotional circles also we find that word being used Radhanath Maharaj also in his book Journey Home uses this phrase my soul at a few places so my soul was searching for God or my soul was restless without knowledge of God so that whenever people want to refer to their innermost essence they often refer to it as referring to my soul