Bumper Syndrome

BUMPER SYNDROME

Emilio Alberto Restrepo Baena

Once in the thirties, the settlement of adulthood, "the third floor," the maturity of the Middle Ages, attacking us in all its fury Bumper Syndrome.

Completion of professional studies, total immersion in the production process, the constitution of the family, the arrival of children, the desire to acquire obscesivo consumer goods patenticen success, the final installation of responsibilities postponed, and short, the confluence of all these and other variables modify the nature of the individual final, we suppress the spontaneity and castrated him some ability to improvise, you feel inhibited to take risks and not fronta new challenges with enthusiasm, because there is constant fear of exposure, to sacrifice one of the biggest straitjackets that characterize this period: the stability and balance.

In this age tie imposed, strict adherence to schedules, the dependence of the standard, the supreme dominion of the agenda as a marker inflexible routine accounts payable at the end of the month that remind us of our dependence on credit only possibility for the middle class is validated and reinforced in the possession of the stigmata consumerist, bosses, secretaries, meetings in schools for children and the many courses in which enrolled, the urban traffic jams, and a long and so we reiterate our membership of the thick cord of the population in the Gaza half of its existence.

And if we laughed for fifteen years of life and everyday life of Lorenzo Bumpers, today we are necessarily drawn on it every day and reproduce the characteristics that make them so famous and so much ascendancy in his thousands of readers: A repetitive work and demanding with little incentive for advancement, a sullen and grumpy boss who understands a very personal way the law of surplus value into savage capitalism, a devoted wife and who performs miracles with methodical routine and half, children and adolescents burden of anxieties and demands, and caring neighbors above,

endless naps, the sofa as a last bastion of freedom and loyal accomplice needs silence, rest and love for himself, as escape the bestial sandwich creative and playful to his anxiety, his fondness for manual jobs where nothing goes right but fitness kills time, and that evening the monotony suspicion of carrying a mediocre existence and little witty accounts and rental shop, car sharing to save money, the proverbial tardiness or better, the rush and desperate eagerness to try to be on time to meet its obligations, in short, a little of everything we are and feel every day and never in our early years of chimeras, ideals, dreams and ease not even imagine.

After these years starts evils very own and unfortunately quite common: ulcer, insomnia, indigestion, heart problems. Is decreased exercise tolerance (increasingly rare). No longer endure the late nights and hangovers are becoming increasingly fierce. The hair falls out in clumps, gums hurt. With increasing frequency there are episodes of impotence, loss of appetite at all levels, from back pain. Sacrifices his waist by a slender figure and uncontrollable unsightly fatty deposits known as "tires". It reads less, has less, have more fear.

There is in every one of us a serious soccer coach, a deep political analyst and a frustrated Lothario. There was talk in a pontifical tone unbearable, often without valid supporting arguments and often biased, subjective and superficial, if not cloying.

Each is a potential murderer driving, facing rows, tacos and tails or representations to take the obligatory mind undisturbed shortsighted bureaucrats, mediocre and narrow or with government officials with their indolence open clear to the taxpayer suffered all his contempt, as I recall their condition miserable worm that has to surrender to its ineffectiveness and its tyrant vile character.

These are tough thirties. (Remember the book "The crisis of adulthood") The script is tight and strong and constant pressure. Its very high and rather sacrificed the ability to appropriate the meaning of pleasure. There is no freedom, creativity and strength of adolescence, nor stability, tranquility and calmness of a well managed seniors. The demands of achieving this morning, they sacrifice everyday enjoyment, appreciation of detail, the subtlety of the moment.

Therefore, in an imperceptible murmur, children grow up and go, the contemporaries die, health deteriorates and one fails to see how and when did all that. Time passes quickly and the body and mind become sluggish.

That's why when it gets out of hand the handling of a situation that requires a precise balance, we fall into hell as alcoholism, drug addiction (and addictive More serious than at other ages), the trabajoadicción, depression, infidelity consetudinaria, chronic bad temper, intolerance, apathy, anhedonia, amotivation.

Finally, thirty plays take all your aches and washers. No way, still alive and being middle-class citizens, to make the remove. We must learn how to rescue Bumper Lorenzo the importance of the sofa, the huge sandwiches, billiards, bowling for above everything else that you press it, but without neglecting, as it makes part of its obligation existential. Perhaps in this lies the key to their preservation and freshness. Note you that in the last thirty years has not aged or gained a single wrinkle, not a single gray hair. Neither could get their own house or service girl, but not everything can be perfect.