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the gap between who you are and who you keep promising to become.
means A strong hope or ambition to achieve something, especially a goal you're reaching toward but haven't yet attained.
from From Latin aspirare, "to breathe upon" or "breathe toward" — built from ad- ("to, toward") and spirare ("to breathe," the same root that fills spirit, inspire, and respire). The image is literally of breathing in the direction of something you desire, a yearning so bodily it lives in the lungs. The same word also gives us the linguist's "aspiration" — the little puff of breath after a hard consonant — a reminder that the root never strayed far from actual breathing.
- latin root
- means to breathe toward something
- medical twin
- also means inhaling fluid into your lungs
- linguistics
- the puff of air after spoken consonants
- physics quirk
- vacuum pumps work by aspiration too
apollo 11 — humans reached the moon in 1969, fulfilling kennedy's aspiration stated in 1961
nelson mandela — spent 27 years imprisoned while aspiring to end apartheid in south africa, achieved in 1994
malala yousafzai — shot by taliban in 2012 but continued aspiring to universal education, won nobel peace prize 2014