to good health

"Walking along the Champs-Elysées I keep thinking of my really superb health. When i say 'health' I mean optimism, to be truthful. Incurably optimistic! Still have one foot in the nineteenth century. I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans. Carl finds it disgusting, this optimism. 'I have only to talk about a meal,' he says, 'and you're radiant!' It's a fact. The mere thought of a meal- another meal- rejuvenates me. A meal! That means something to go on- a few solid hours of work, an erection possibly. I don't deny it. I have health, good solid, animal health. The only thing that stands between me and a future is a meal, another meal.
... I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck any more what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today! Le bel aujourd'hui!"

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
1934