with his venom

A THING CALLED

LOVE

Love , that loosener of limbs , would never be without the pain that reptile-like strikes me down ' especially in an anthrocentric mode of existence that man is leading

Taking an emotive point of view , a person would naturally realize that love in all its glory is a roller coaster ride of emotional setbacks and blissfulness . Yet , man is still at awe with love . It is the irresistible ' force that brings two people together and yet it could still be the bittersweet ' ride that people would choose to take

if given the chance . It would seem that love has a way that makes people get captivated . It has a fine way of creeping into people with his venom ' bringing happiness and pain . In a world that is much concerned with all that is human , it could easily be seen that the emotional concern (as part of being human ) could not be erased would usually come from other people or it may be due to man 's own doing . Either way , pain could come from different reasons and angles The main focus then is as to how pain could also be derived from love that makes it irresistible and bittersweet

What makes people anthrocentric to point of becoming egocentric is the fact that in this time of the era , technological boom had developed a standard that would necessitate a man 's concern for man in connection to the benefits that it would bring to the self . Egocentrism in this instance would not be the whole debate but the fact that man is centered and /or fascinated on humanity . Along with this fascination is the fascination for the emotive realm that is all too human . Even the most cold a person could not escape from the clutches of humanity and of mortality . Love is the inevitable venom ' that strikes in any given time . But what is most fascinating about it is the fact that love usually goes hand-in-hand with pain . It then creates this bittersweet ' emotion or a feeling of happiness and sadness . It could not be at the same time since that would be contradictory but at some point there is this certain demarcation line where happiness would stop and the sadness would start and vice versa . What invokes this emotional status could be explained by the Sartrean point of view . Jean-Paul Sartre 's concept of Hell is Other People brings out the idea that others could have a definite effect on a person (Patrik , 2001 . Undeniably , we are a being that is part of a world that is also inhabited by other beings as well . In this aspect , Sartre believed that a person is constantly at the mercy of the other as well as the other is at the mercy of the person (Patrik , 2001 . It would seem then that the constant exposure to the other could have a direct emotional bearin on a person . The pain that strikes me down ' could then be brought about by the...