Travel and transport

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?