By Amita Quenim
Michelangelo attempted 44 statues in his life, but completed only 14. These include masterpieces like David in the Piazza of Florence, the Pieta in the Vatican Basilica, and Moses.  The 30 unfinished sculptures, however, are in their own way as interesting as those that became classics.

They have been preserved in a museum at Italy. Each is a huge chunk of marble from which Michelangelo sculpted only an elbow or the beginning of a wrist. One mass of marble reveals a leg, thigh, knee, calf and foot. The rest of the body is locked forever in stone. The person Michelangelo had in mind will never step forth and his thoughts will remain forever a mystery.
I wonder who he had in his thoughts for the remaining sculptures. Why did he select that particular character and what made him do what he did? How would we ever know what he left behind in his unfinished work…or was it a finished work according to him? Did he begin with a certain thought and left it when he thought it was completed according to his perception? It was a completed elbow and foot, but we call it unfinished in comparison with his other works and our perception of completion.
Your mind and body are conditioned to complete a circle of 24 hours. You wake up and take up your activities with great energy and enthusiasm, and you end your day with a feeling of completeness before falling asleep. Then you wake up the next day to begin again, sure to end. Any phase of life begins and then ends, on a happy note or otherwise. When you begin anything you are satisfied only when you complete it. A few examples that may help to connect your thoughts would be, start draping a saree - it feels good when you have completed the task; drive to office in the morning - you feel good when you drive back home in the evening and park the car. A child goes to school when he is five. That’s when he begins the first day of school. It ends with the last day of the tenth grade, which is extremely important. You admire someone secretly, may be even for years, but only when you express your feelings and end the uncertainty do you feel complete and love springs. The time you take may last for a moment, a day or for years. But whatever begins, ends, and opens a new avenue in life.
Thoughts, feelings and actions do not occur by chance, they have a covered trace and a hidden cause, which automatically uncovers itself under appropriate situations. As proved there are three levels of personality in every individual. The first is the visible consciousness, which consists of everything within cognitive awareness. The second level is the preconscious, made up of the material that is fairly accessible but not within a person’s awareness. The final level is the underlying unconscious, which consist of every aspect of the human personality of which we are unaware, and it is here, in the powerful unconscious drive, that one would find the hidden treasure of the explanations of human motivation.
Freud refers to the structure of personality as the “scaffold of the mind”. The three components are: one which represents the biological self in personality, two is the partially unconscious drive or psychological centre of personality and the governor, three is the social controller in the tower that brings behaviour within culturally acceptable limits. These three aspects are unseen but are the real psychological process of the mind. They interact with one another in dynamic ways that change and influence personality.
It may not be an easy task to always complete what you begin, because it is a balance between the real world you live with and your hidden world that you want to live with. Sometimes you try to bend towards your hidden world, which is so pure and connected to your inner self, but then suddenly you may suspend it for the real world that has been created for you. It is your decision and your attitude towards your needs and desires that prompt your actions. It’s time you believe in yourself and believe that you know what is best for you. Do you want to bend towards or away, is all a matter of conscious and rational thoughts. How can you ever leave anything incomplete, how can you not find a way towards completion, how can you not believe in yourself. It is extremely simple and easy if you are fair to your self intentionally, and not unfair to others intentionally.  
The writer is a Clinical Psychologist