Unfinished. Symphonies?

Some people just find it difficult to finish things.  Anything and I'm one of them.  ...But hey it's not all bad, not everything has to be finished does it?  Look at sentences.  We leave sentences in the middle all the time.  That's human conversation.  In fact if we didn't, we'd be a little weird if we didn't.  A bit like Data in Star Trek. 

Here are my top ten unfinished masterpieces (not quite ten of the best unfinished literary works) but they're all mine.

1. my first book, written age 7 in the room with the red shelves my dad painted.   chapter 1 'There was an old seaman.'  chapter 2. THE END.  
2. 53 unfinished poems and 7 unfinished short stories.  I keep reading some of them back sometimes when I try to clear out my cupboard (see below).  I have the makings of something ok, I think.  then they go back in the cupboard.
3. blog 'Tiptoe through the tulips' - one post, July 2005 (if you ever find it let me know)
4. second blog, the procrastinette.  first entry 2008. Second entry one year later.
5. 100 or so reading books, including the four hour work week, how to get what you want and want what you have and the ode less travelled.  (although some books, like A Suitable Boy, and Middlemarch, I raced through).  Length isn't an issue (!).  Perhaps it's something to do with the moon.
6. sorting out the top shelf in my wardrobe. started 2005.
7. trip diary to Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.  Last entry somewhere near Chiang Mai. who cares. I have memories and some fuzzy photos.
8. predictably, this list.

Of course, an unfinished box of chocolates is always quite welcome.   and schubert did it (although admittedly he didn't finish because he died, which I don't plan to do just yet)

on that note.  I'll summon an early ending with the help of the wonderful http://www.brainyquote.com  

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Greg Anderson

(don't ask me who greg anderson is. I reckon he's a retired astronaut)