Dr. Charles Berg

Many years ago, I read that there was 83,400 seconds in every 24 hours. How we choose to use this time is completely within our control. The digital revolution is here to stay. Computers, tablets and every form of mobile media are and will be intimate parts of our daily lives.

Caution! –We have all become seriously impacted by this revolution and will continually be unless; we stay conscious and vigilant to its precarious hold on our day-to-day, moment-to-moment behaviors.

So here's my take on Valentines Day. Unless someone is in a brand new relationship and needs a specific day to share their feelings of love and appreciation, here is yet another opportunity for society to have us spend three times the amount for flowers, chocolates and other gifts of acknowledgment. Anxiety abounds as each of us hopes that whatever we purchased was exemplary enough to demonstrate our appreciation and our love to our “main squeeze.”

Look around! Our society is becoming sicker by the day as millions of people are diagnosed with lifestyle illnesses that are robbing them of their life energy, joy and enthusiasm for living.

Let me cut to the chase. With all the rhetoric that is spewed in magazines, newspapers and online articles, the ultimate bottom line for causation of all issues are simply our choices.