EMPTY SLATE THEORY

"When life gives you a second chance, you forget all the non-sense and you give it your hundred percent."

- Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz, Mugaritz Restaurant, Spain.

There are times when, in life, we work hard, very hard, giving not just a 100%, but 200% , to our goals and our dreams. And there are times, when even after working so hard, we don't see our dreams coming true. And then, someday, after sometime, maybe after a couple of days, years maybe, we get another chance to go see our dreams come true. In the perfect universe, where demons don't exist in our minds, where we believe in ourselves and where we don't tend to look back at the past and we don't have a fear of failure, this opportunity would be something that we would pounce at without second thoughts and without any fear that maybe our dreams might not come true-again. But, perfect universes exist in daydreams and demons exist in our minds and in our surroundings, and there is always a minuscule of fear in our minds when the same opportunity knock on our doors. What to do then?

I believe in this theory called the 'Empty Slate Theory'. Now I know that if I say that some philosopher developed this theory in the late 1800s it might seem more believable or heavier than if I say that I, Nializ Tomles, developed this theory in the early 2000s, BUT, I hope it helps you as much it has helped me. This theory holds true not just for our dreams, but little bumps and obstacles in our lives too.

I believe, that we need to start with an empty slate if an opportunity comes to us again. We need to start afresh. With a new mindset. We need to forget that we tried and failed once before. We need to remember the lessons the past gave, but we cannot stay stuck into it. We owe ourselves that much. If we again get the chance to go after our dreams, after going after it once and falling face first, we need to believe that we can once again give it our 200%, that maybe this time the circumstances are better than those at that time in the past and that this time we will succeed. Forget that you didn't succeed once. Think that this is the first time you are trying and go ahead with your plans. Be single minded with your focus. Don't think about the past so much that this new opportunity just passes by you and instead of grabbing it, you just wave at it. No. Think that you are like an empty slate and this is the first time a new word is being written on you. That this is the first time you are learning something new.That it is the first time you are working for your goals.It's either this or feeling guilty 50 years later. It's our choice.

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