Faster

World is getting faster and faster. People is stressed and suffer a lot of pain derived from our new way of life. Our health, physical and mental, is fighting a new battle against the speed of life. I think that stress is a symptom of not being able to keep the pace of life. I would compare that situation with somebody running in a treadmill and when starts to increase the speed, at some point, he needs to slow down or stop running because it is not possible to keep running at that speed.
I am completely sure that stress is a consecuence of speeding up our life, but my question is, who is going to decrease the speed of our "treadmill", modern life. When you are running at gym, you can stop as you get tired, however, when you are suffering stress in your life, you can't stop your life and simply get off.
Two or three decades ago, life was more peaceful than now. There were a lot of problems, of course, but everything happened slowly, and you had time to think and realize what was going on. In these days, there are a lot of things happening right now and we will probably never know, and all the events that we are involved in, sometimes we are merely witnesses, because we do not have time to react and think about which should be our response to those stimulus.
The main diference is that, back in time, we had much less information to process and communication means were slower than now, so we had much time to think, if we wanted or needed. Nowadays, we can communicate with anybody at any time and anybody can communicate with us whenever they want. So, things happen faster, kids grow faster, fashion trends last an instant. So, in summary, we do not have time to assimilate all the changes that occur in our lives and, eventually, our body, our mind or even both crash.
Taking all above into account, maybe in some years the only human being capable of keeping the pace will be Usain Bolt.