AMBITIONThe Almost signals
Anonymous thoughts about the almost.
The thing that was nearly yours and then wasn't.
Worse than not trying because you can see exactly what you didn't get.
The distance between almost and enough.
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The almost is different from failure. It's the specific experience of proximity — coming very close to something and having it not quite happen. The job you almost got. The relationship that was almost love. The version of your life that was almost the life you wanted.
Anonymous thoughts about the almost posted here are from people who have measured the distance — the honest account of what it's like to live in the proximity of things that didn't quite arrive.