“STEPS, STAIRS, FLIGHTS”

{ April 20, 2009 @ 12:34 pm } · { Haunted thoughts }

Progress is something we are all used to. Technology evolves from one month to another. One branch of progress was transports. Ten million years ago people were walking to cross over the states, mountains and were practically stuck on a continent. One “step” later they had boats to crossover the rivers and carriages to help them get faster from one place to another. One “carriage” later they were able to fly over the continents and all over the world. I am wondering, what it is next? Time is flying but so are we. Does that not make you ask yourself what will be the next step in progress?

            Let us start with the first steps of the world. It is said that God created Earth in seven days. Seven easy steps and then BOOM! Humans were born. Others say that humans made very long steps to evolve from monkeys. First you are a monkey, some million years later you are a man building a cottage for your family.

            From the simple cottage, that the ape (now man) built it, to the huge luxury castles was only another step. To protect the castles and the people who lived in the villages around it, people invented steps. Narrow hallways throughout the castle had uneven steps built for the invaders to be blocked there. Everybody was salvaged and the castles and their stairs could go on with their lives.

            Because people got bored to walk that much from one castle to another they invented carriages with wooden wheels and horses were to pull them for hours till the owners got to their destination. Nowadays, PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) would say that the horses were being exploited. The people who owned carriages and enjoyed their much more easy trips, called it progress. From carriages to steam trains and cars was only a step or a few decades.

            Technology evolved, castles are now museums, people live in skyscrapers and drive cars, leaving the horses to have a free life in the wild or in barns. Mankind is a resourcefulness specie and thought that boats are not good enough for the new era and they only made you loose precious time. In consequence someone thought of flying. It all started from Leonardo Da Vinci whose sketches are now used to make helicopters. And planes were just waiting to be tried out.

            Progress has a strange way to influence our daily lives. First there were steps, then stairs, now flights. Imagination has no limit and neither does evolution. I am just hopping that the next time I want to go to another state, town or island I will not have to say ENGAGE!

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