the knot of unfinishedness

our brain is constantly trying to finish the things we leave unfinished. unfinished work, broken appliances, unresolved feelings, conversations we never had, things we keep putting off because we don’t know what to do with them. they pile up. one by one. until, at some point, they turn into a knot. i realized this during the times when i started doing those “empty your mind onto paper” exercises.…