In “Existentialism,” I liked when the author talked about anguish.  He first asks what is meant by anguish and then proceeds to claim that man is anguish.  We, as a human race are and embrace anguish.  He is obviously an observer of people when he loosely claims that even though some people claim not to be anxious, we say they are hiding it.  I think that is absolutely true.  Personally, I have never met anyone that wasn’t anxious about at least one thing.  If not anxious, then nervous.  Or, as Sartre put it, is someone with an “uneasy conscience.”  We all have something that we’re unsure of or nervous about.  There are always decisions to be made and different problems that come up daily.  I thing that Sartre is trying to help us understand that when we throw this feeling off as unimportant or, in another case, become completely overwhelmed by an anxious feeling, we are not alone and he reminds us that all of human kind feels this way at some point or another.  He makes the observation that, “anguish is evident even when it conceals itself.”  I agree with this statement because I know that I have become pretty experienced at covering up my problems.  I don’t want others to feel sorry for me or feel the need to reach out and help me at any time.  That doesn’t mean that I don’t have any, it just means that I have, as Sartre says, concealed them. It’s helpful to read this passage and to remember that anguish is here and all too present in the human race.