WritingsMay 11, 2025Source article

A latte please

Ordering a coffee reveals the thousands of learned actions handled beneath conscious awareness—and how much of life may be driven from the backseat.

What percent of your life would you say

Or ascertain

Or judge

Or place a number on

Would you say

Is run

And fully caused by

Your subconscious

And your conscious?

If you were to place a number on the ratio between the two

is it not scary

If subconscious is the majority?

Because you do not control this powerful force?

Are you in the backseat of your life?

And to whom

Is he a careful driver

What if he is powerful beyond reckoning

Consider the amount of things one must remember

Just to order a coffee

Credit credit card language body language clothing speech manners doors opening doors directions directions to cafe menu reading

My god! No wonder it takes so long for a child to be educated

It is not one

Or two

But a thousand things to know

About humanity

Just to order a coffee

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