ispiratio

the word inspire for the past couple weeks i feel has been all over my life so tonight i sat down and really wanted to dive into the word.
it is a beautiful word that has a long history but what really intrigued me was that it is connected to breathing and inhaling and i never really thought of the word inspire having any connection to breathing. it is interesting, depending on where you look it up it is connected to to breathe into, to take into the lungs, to inhale, etc.
after thinking about it for a few minutes, i can completely understand the connection to the physical act of bringing new air into my lungs. being inspired is like a breath of fresh air and usually with inspiration i usually shed some sort of negativity or something that frustrated me, which would be comparable to exhaling. this lead me to look up antonyms for inspire and saw words like extinguish, dissuade, etc.
we can't live if we don't breathe, and what is life without inspiration? if we were to stop breathing we would die and if we are never inspired we stay stagnant and never move forward. by not moving forward we then don't really live.
just one word but significant, just as one breath may be just a couple seconds but is necessary for life to continue...