“Human vitality is so exuberant that within the sorriest desert it nonetheless finds a pretext for glowing and trembling” (José Ortega y Gasset).
IT’S EASY TO ADMIRE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE GREAT “VITALITY.” It’s a lovely high quality. Coming from the Latin vita (“life”), vitality is the trait of those that, whether or not younger or outdated, appear to have extra life about them. They bubble with a liveliness that’s thrilling to look at. We recognize their spirit and their spunk.
However vitality will not be solely admirable; it’s highly effective. Those that have vitality are extra productive, clearly, however their work additionally tends to be of a better high quality. Certainly, it’s nothing wanting astonishing to consider what has been achieved by vitality. Once they have been actually “alive” to their work, human beings have written breathtaking symphonies and invented life-changing improvements and proven death-defying heroism. Vitality is a potent type of leverage.
However it’s particularly in our relationships that we have to worth vitality. We bestow nice honor upon others after we current ourselves to them as people who’re contemporary and vigorous. “I really like you” comes by way of loud and clear after we reside life totally. “It’s our uniqueness that offers freshness and vitality to a relationship” (James C. Dobson).
The work that folks do on the planet is as diverse because the individuals who do it. However no matter it’s that we do, most of us may do it extra energetically and with extra vitality. Within the E book of Ecclesiastes, there’s this sensible assertion: “No matter your hand finds to do, do it along with your would possibly.” We could fail or fall brief (and the larger our targets, the extra typically that can occur), however we will a minimum of give our greatest effort.
Every day exams us with questions like these: How a lot vitality can we possess? How alive are we? How a lot vitality can we put into our initiatives? Clearly, we’d like as a lot vitality as we will muster if we’re to do work that’s price doing. However vitality will not be a matter of genetic make-up or environmental circumstances; it’s a matter of character. And if it’s a matter of character, then it’s a matter of alternative. So allow us to select to work with ardour and vitality. And after we fail or fall brief, allow us to have sufficient vitality to stand up and get going as soon as once more.
“Vitality exhibits not solely within the potential to persist however within the potential to begin over” (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Gary Henry — WordPoints.com + AreYouaChristian.com
