Sartre

I have never thought of the idea of anguish at all other than fear. However, I really like the way Sartre sees anguish, as "the reflective apprehension of freedom by itself" (Sartre qtd. in 189). Freedom, at its purest form, is pretty scary. We already have to deal with this as college students. We have new found freedom with where we go, when we go, what we do, when we do it; almost everything is completely up to us. I would say anguish is what happens when we wake up in the morning and contemplate not going to class. It would be so easy and so nice to crawl back under the covers, yet most of us (well some of us at least haha) make the decision to get up and get dressed and go to class. This is why we grow so much as people through college, we learn to deal with this anguish, this fear of having to make a decision, and we get conditioned to (hopefully) make the right decision. Now that I think of it, athletics seems to be a great example of anguish. It doesn't even have to be out on the court or the field, it can happen in the gym. We have the freedom to do what we want yet we decide to stay on the treadmill for another mile, we decide to squat another set, we decide to hold planks as long as we can. This may not be the best example, but I thought that it could fit in sorta kinda maybe.