Fitzgerald: Vitality… (One Million Drops).

I was at a friend’s house last weekend reading through a book of inspirational quotes and ran across this one by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

My “back of the napkin” calculation indicates that, assuming I’ve dropped the footbag once every 25 seconds in my 20 year career of kicking at least an average of an hour per day (some conservative numbers by my estimation), that I have dropped the bag…

Over a million times. Literally, one million failed attempts.

Clearly, this is not something to brag about, but I believe it does speak to persistence, and vitality, and the aptness of this particular quote when it comes to footbag. Dropping is part of the game. Besides, if you never dropped, it wouldn’t be worth playing.