Today was my day off. I had nothing official on the schedule, no office work or band rehearsals or meetings or shows to go to. Despite this, there were things that needed to be done, and in many ways they were just as obligatory as showing up at my day job on Monday morning.
This sense of obligation is driven by the uncomfortable sensation that something has been left undone for too long. It’s a heavy, energy-sapping feeling that has a way of blocking action, creating inertia and anxiety and guilt, filling the mind with dread at doing and dread at not-doing. Continue reading “How unfinished tasks weigh us down”