Distinguishing between conscious and subconscious mind

The more you try not to think about a particular event or thought, the more we are aware of it. Why might this be so? When we do not want to think of something by will, our conscious mind is at work and thus our mind repeatedly reminds itself about what it is trying to ignore. So as to prevent itself from committing the mistake of ending up thinking about the exact same thing or similar, which we do not want to be reminded about. But in the process of remembering what it is we are trying to ignore or forget, we think of it more due to the fact that our conscious mind is at work. Anything our conscious mind does, we are aware of. So why would we forget things so easily then? This would probably be because of the work of our subconscious. When we usually forget something, we would notice that we were absorbed in some other thought or task at that moment in time which makes you forget the task you are trying to remember to do in the future. But since your conscious mind wants to work on the current happenings around you at that given moment, the thought of remembering the future event we want/have to do is pushed back into the subconscious mind. Thus we forget what we walked into a room for etc. We need to maintain the idea that the thought is not completely lost until the deed/task relating to that thought is completed . Thus, it still exists in our subconscious mind but we are not fully aware of it. When our conscious mind does realize that the task related to that particular thought is not completed, the thought stored in the subconscious is brought into the conscious mind. Thus, we remember what we have forgotten.