Every day I have to use my car, not only
to go to university, but also to meet friends, to go to the supermarket or just
to buy bread to lunch. To sum up, I am a slave of what make me freer: my car.
Nowadays I can go everywhere I want using
ways of transport, and it is great! I love travelling and discovering things I’ve
never seen but, am I missing something? I can get the answer simply looking
around me and realizing that I have a few friends in my neighborhood and I never
meet them. Moreover I don’t know the baker, the butcher or the fruitere because
I simply go to the supermarket. This fact is making many markets closed and
people say that is because of the progress of society but, have I better food
or better personal treatment? I don’t think so: I have chemically altered food
and a bored cashier who doesn’t mind who I am or how I feel.
In the past a neighborhood was a big
family where everyone knows everyone. Was a place where you never feel alone or
bored, because your routines became part of your social relationships. They had strong traditions and a culture
deeply rooted.
Now, because of the transportation and the
``progressive society´´, we are losing our traditions, our markets, our
lifelong friends and spending most of our live working and making short trips away
just to disconnect briefly from our empty life.
The question here is ¿Where is the
progress?
