No pep required. My thoughts, however, were on pep. Now I knew that I had no pep, which should have been obvious to all around me. And yet, no one sprang to my aid. No one volunteered to substitute his or her pep for my missing pep.
People seem unwilling or unable to share their pep.
It occurred to me that while I know how essential pep is to my existence and the existence, in fact, of all of us, I really have no idea what pep is. The dictionary was no help, describing pep as brisk energy and so forth. But not a clue as to what it really is. The word comes from pepper, but you don't get pep from eating peppercorns. Being out of pep, I have no idea where to get more.