Regressing or Progressing
Creative Works… 97
by Samuel Baldovinos
Headlines appear here and there They all seem to read the same thing. I catch myself thinking: Will it go away? Are we truly regressing or progressing? Does our idea of regression point to the fact that we want society, — life — to go back to how it once was back in those days? The days that seem forgotten or a reality that was lived a lifetime ago. Or is our idea of progression twisted, in the sense of experimenting, guessing on what could be, or what can be done to progress? Are the headlines we consume a concept of persuading the masses to conform, or reform, unhealthy habits and once-accepted behaviors? Does progress lie in the belief of arenas and stadiums filled to maximum capacity? Or maskless Boeings hovering the baby-blue skies, or does progress foreshadow a future of people free of the unease and fear? Perhaps the progress is a reality we have yet to know or fully grasp, as once was the concept of gravity and space travel, generations ago. Perhaps the progress we seek or want to know is a labyrin-