"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 finding meaning and purpose in one's life. So the challenge is for those who are feeling lost, is to look inward, and ask yourself what is it that you want out of life? How do you want your life to play out? How do you want your future to look like?