The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Boorstin frames imagination not as escapism but as a practical human power: the bravery to conceive alternatives to what is given. “Otherwise” suggests counterfactual thinking—envisioning different outcomes, selves, or social arrangements—which can be risky because it challenges habit, authority, and the comfort of inevitability. Calling it our “greatest resource” elevates imaginative courage to a form of capital that fuels creativity, discovery, and moral progress. The phrase “adding color and suspense” implies that imagining possibilities enriches lived experience: it makes life vivid (color) and open-ended (suspense), turning existence from mere repetition into a narrative with potential change.