Remember before hand-helds, cell phones, and pagers were telephones? The only thing you could do with it was talk to family and friends, the ocassional solicitor, and it became a great prop when you were angry at someone - just bang the receiver against the wall? Those phones were indestructible!

Now we are slaves to technology! We lived without it all,so why can’t we survive without them now? The answer is quite simple - we live in a society of immediate gratification - As in the iconic Chase commercial, “I want it all and I want it now!” Cells phones and hand-helds have given us the opportunity to have it all and have it now.

The problem, as I see it, is not the technology but the abuse of it. Car accidents, related to cell phone/hand held usage is at an all time high. It may help a little to use a head-set but not by much. The human brain is not designed to multi-task in this way. It is like an alcoholic who says, “I can drive just fine when I am drunk….”until he kills someone during the act and he unfortunately survives!

Come on people, Wake up! Technology is wonderful, and like a fine wine it must be handled carefully, let your fingers gently explore the navigational wheel, its sights and sounds to arouse your senses, but not when you are driving!!

I raise my chardonay in a toast to your cellular accomplishments!

In health and wellness,

Dr. Linda Mundorff
bridges2hlth@aol.com