"Memories" Of Teenagers

Our sports heroes, musical, artistic ... do not exceed twenty years. Some even seem to be back and everything on it early age: Paris Hilton at 29, Amy Winehouse at 26, Lady Gaga, the 24 ...

Does anyone give more? Well, yes. The Canadian singer Justin Bieber, new musical phenomenon 16 years of age, will publish his memoirs next October. But does anyone really has a long life behind him to having only 16 Anita?

Apparently, we have accelerated both the pace of the story that the time is not measured in decades, as before, but instant aging bits of information as events occur. Moreover, the events do not value themselves, but by the expectations they generate. So, Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize not for anything I've done but for what they might do.

Previously, this type of awards accounted culmination of the merits of a lifetime. Now, however, the pilot Fernando Alonso is given the Prince of Asturias Prize at age 24, when a person still has a lifetime ahead.

You tell me if there is a terrible irony that these things happen when, thanks to the lengthening of life, today there are still characters fully lucid centenarians in creative, as Manoel de Oliveira, Oscar Niemeyer and José Luis Sampedro.

But of course these are only the exception in a society that its members seek early retirement with 50 years considered as anachronistic and disposable as those prehistoric dinosaurs disappeared.