Imagine you have vitality!

Vitality never “takes.”  You have it or you haven’t it, like health or brown eyes or honor or a baritone voice.   --F. Scott Fitzgerald



Fitzgerald wrote that in his essay "the Crack-up".

As I read this essay, he once had been full of vitality but was gradually exhausting and losing it.


I agree that "vaitality never takes" and wonder what can we do when we exhaust it.

But now, imagine that we have vitality. If you suppose you don't have it like Fitzgerald's health or brown eyes, life is so hopeless. As an enthusiastic Optimist, I believe that if I imagine I have vitality, it will be born from yourself.