The Zeigarnik Effect

The Zeigarnik effect is a psychological phenomenon describing a tendency to remember interrupted or incomplete tasks or events more easily than tasks that have been completed. It slips, crawls, follows even. It drops when you're least expecting it. It barks at you, trying to get a bite of your amygdala, forcing it to resort to mediums uncanny. The incomplete to-do list, handing on my wall, shouting at me, calling me names. The incomplete to-do list, sleeping next to me in my bed forcing me to look at it, embrace it, acknowledge its presence. It lurks in the background of your life. Calls you names, bends you in positions you're not accustomed to. The incomplete To-do list, making faces at you, holding you and not letting you go. The back pain, the pain in your limbs, the pain in the heart, the head- I want to rip it off. Rip this feeling, my brain, my heart.