Debate: Man is a bundle of emotions
Side: man is a bundle of emotions

Emotions are a mental state that arise spontaneously and is often accompanied by psychological changes; a feeling -joy, sorrow, hate and love. Where there is life there are emotions. Non living things like machines do not possess emotions. It is the emotions that differentiates a living being from the non livings. Man is said to be the bundle of emotions. In fact it is the emotions that make a man a living being. All the human activities are guided by his emotions. It is the degree of emotions that differentiates a man from other animals. Though other animals do have emotions but of short horizon. As quoted by famous philosopher Aristotle, man is a social animal. Society comes into existence because of interpersonal relations of human being which are controlled by emotions. We cannot expect a society without existence of emotions among its members. Even the existing societies will come to an end in the absence of emotions. It is emotions that create a bond of attachment among human being. Unlike machines the human beings love, hate, weep, laugh, feels jealous, pride etc. It is because of emotions that a man is treated differently than machines. He is paid, mostly employed locally, provided leave etc for recreation and to meet family need i.e. emotions. Even Mash-low has also described the role of emotions in human needs. If we look at life it is nothing but survival of emotions. We earn livelihood working in different professions. My friends may argue that at work place, specially today, man keeps the emotions away and behaves like a machine. A manager never thinks of emotions but of output. But let us think why at all a man works! He works to fulfill not only his personal needs but also that of his family and society. Here the emotions come into picture. Though at work place he may avoid showing emotions, but his ultimate aim of working is the emotions. Though one may not show emotions at work place, it still prevails within him. It can be seen when one of his friends falls sick, immediately emotions come into picture and he starts taking care of his friend leaving the work aside.  The role of emotions is found continuously in human life. Be it the attachment between mother and child or a father taking care of his children and vice versa at a later stage of life or be it a school teacher bothering for the students or be it any other relations, all are based on emotional attachment. It is the emotional attachment that makes a father feel pride when his child stands first in the class. It is only and only emotional attachment that makes us shadow tears when some of our near one passes away. It may be argued that emotions alone will not lead the humanity to the world of development of science and technology. Correct, but what the thought of development is based upon- definitely on human needs which is based on emotions. At the same time it may be remembered that the development without association of emotions proves destructive. The world has seen it at many occasions. The world has seen the use of atomic energy both in peaceful construction i.e. development and in destruction Eg JAPAN. It is only emotional attachments that insists for the correct use of inventions. Therefore the need for association of emotions. If we see the reel life i.e. cinema industry, which projects the real life, the role of emotions become more clear. The whole movie moves along with human emotions. At times, Even a movie watcher starts weeping, laughing, he become angry etc. what does it show- definitely role of emotions in human life. To conclude, we can say it is the emotions that make the man ‘a living object’. At the most one can suppress emotions for time being, but one can never and in no way, separate emotions from human life. Therefore it can be said that ‘MAN IS A BUNDLE OF EMOTIONS’.