You and Your Subconscious are strangers
Human behavior is largely shaped by subconscious processes that guide decisions beyond awareness. Often labeled intuition, these forces draw on memory and experience. Vivienne Westwood’s nonlinear career exemplifies how such influences direct creativity.
Most of our lives, if not all, we fall short of being nothing more than strangers to our own subconscious. It’s like we’ve been driving our whole lives with a GPS running in the background that we never set up, never updated, and barely even notice. It quietly recalculates our routes, nudges us to turn here instead of there, and sometimes sends us down roads we don’t recognize yet we keep moving without asking why. There’s always a reason behind everything, your subconscious just hasn’t told you yet. My love for crosswalking context reminds of Vivienne Westwood’s journey navigating life, fashion, and historical culture and how her subconscious kept redirecting her. Her story doesn’t follow a neat, logical path. She jumps between running a post office, primary school teacher, punk fashion enthusiast, political mastermind, memories of fabric, and childhood moments and it’s clear she’s guided by something beneath the surface. It’s like her subconscious is quietly pulling the strings, leading her before her conscious mind even catches on. From casually mentions sewing her first punk patch for a guy name Malcolm. It’s tucked away like a small detail, but in reality, it’s a turning point that shaped everything she became. Even when she was sketching shoes late at night and a design shifts “by accident” that’s her subconscious creativity breaking through, taking the lead. Eye truly believe we all live like this making decisions and reacting in ways that don’t always make sense at first glance. We call it intuition or impulse or even free will , but really it’s our subconscious quietly guiding us, carried and influenced by memories, desires, and fears we don’t fully understand. I reckon that if we don’t learn to listen, to understand those hidden signals, and align with that deeper part of ourselves, we risk being left behind by the very life we’re trying to live.
