Vitality What is vitality? The dictionary defines vitality as the capacity to live, grow, or develop. This, to me, seems a vague definition of a word with so much meaning. Vitality, to me, means something that you spend most of your time doing or thinking of doing. Vitality is something that puts a fire inside of you, something that keeps you going and makes you want to get up and live life. Take me, for example, I live for and devote much of my time to football. Some call this a simplistic game but, it is so much more to me than just a game. At a glance, one might think football to be an easy game to play. I mean, come on, how hard can