"Tabula Rasa" -- Blank Slate: Starting over, and redefining your life's script
Not often is one able to truly start over, to really sit and reflect on one's life and the future -- especially how one wants their life to play out. Some are absolutely lost when asked the question: what is it that you want? We may have become the culmination of ideologies and expectations of our past influencers: the media, our friends, family, idols, teachers, mentors -- the ones we care about the most. Our thoughts may not even be ours any more. We may have spent such a long time carrying out someone else's expectations of us, who we ought to be and what we should be doing , that we fail to seek our own wants and needs and carry them out for our self-actualization. We get lost in this flurry of expectations, and perhaps our self-imposed responsibility to others, and never get a chance or even have thought about asking what is it that I want for my life? what is it that I want for my future? How do I want my life to play out? Yet, the question is almost vital to findi