Every unfinished project in your life is a tab still open, quietly using memory.

Unfinished things do not sit quietly. Each one keeps a small claim on your attention, surfacing at odd moments and adding weight to every decision about what to do next, and you pay that cost whether or not you ever return to it. The drain is not the work, it is being unresolved.

List everything you have started and not finished, honestly. Then choose: finish it, schedule it properly, or decide out loud that it is over. Abandoning something on purpose closes the loop just as well as completing it, and it costs far less.