flâneur

Tabula rasa - Kaelaneidoscope

kaelanyim.com · 5,228 words · saved by 2 readers

Compendium of advice

tabula rasa Latin lit. erased tablet def. clean slate, fresh start palimpsest Greek lit. scraped again def. parchment from which writing has been removed and covered or replaced by new writing where faint traces of the original writing persist Starting out Congratulations! You have just been born. Goo goo ga ga. You are a tabula rasa - an advantage you will never fully have again. Over the next 4000 weeks, you will get to wipe identity clean many times over (first day of school, first day of college, first day of each new job), presenting a freshly minted self to a brave new world…

saved by

related reading