make difference from here!: Chocolate: What is the Love Connection?

make difference from here!: Chocolate: What is the Love Connection?: "Chocolate. Dark, white, milk. Pralines, truffles or nugget. No matter what its form, its creamy dark goodness is virtually synonymous w..."

Chocolate: What is the Love Connection?

Chocolate. Dark, white, milk. Pralines, truffles or nugget. No matter what its form, its creamy dark goodness is virtually synonymous with Valentine's Day. Packaged up in that shiny red, heart-shaped box, it all but screams, "I love you."

Come February, chocolate sales boom. But when did chocolate become the penultimate Valentine's Day gift? And how did cocoa beans grow into the symbol of love?
The cocoa connection dates back to ancient history. In fact, chocolate has been around almost as long as man. In 1500 BC, the Olmec Indians grew the first cocoa beans as a domestic crop. At the beginning of the Common Era, Mayan elders began enjoying a drink made from ground cocoa beans - a tradition that continued among society elite well into the 18th century.

During the Middle Ages, Spaniards added cane sugar and other flavorings to sweeten their cocoa drinks. And then in the late 1600s, chocolate emporiums opened across Europe, serving up the first solid versions - baking cocoa in cakes and eventually mixing it into candies as well.

"All the while, chocolate was gaining popularity not only for its decadence, but also for its reputed aphrodisiac properties. Today, we know that chocolate contains phenylethylamine, a naturally occurring amino-acid - the same one that we humans release when we are falling in love. Chocolate also contains tryptophan, a building block of serotonin, which is one of the brain chemicals involved in sexual arousal. No wonder eating chocolate feels so good. And with researchers now touting the heart-healthy benefits of eating dark chocolate, what's not to love?"

But even before modern science, chocolate enthusiasts have been clued in to the good feelings that come from eating (or imbibing) cocoa beans. The Aztec emperor Montezuma was said to have drank copious amounts of the ground beans to increase his sexual prowess. And during Mesoamerican marriage ceremonies, the couple is said to have shared a ritual cup of cocoa, believing that it would increase their luck in love.

It should be no surprise, then, that chocolate has become - or rather, remained - an edible symbol of love. Nor is it too surprising that chocolate makers have capitalized on this natural association.

The first to seize the opportunity was Richard Cardbury - the famous British chocolatier - who, in the 1860s, designed and sold the first heart-shaped box of chocolate candy. Just in time for Valentine's Day. Four decades later, the American chocolate maker Whitman upped the heart-shaped box ante with a brilliant improvement: a map inside the lid describing the filling in each piece.

The introduction of that first Cadbury heart-shaped box has catapulted a 150-year tradition of sharing chocolate with your sweetheart on Valentine's Day. With more than 35 million boxes of chocolate are sold each year, simple chocolate goodness has become the ultimate gift of love.

 

What is true story: Valentines Day

February 14th is Valentines Day  

       - a worldwide celebration of love and romance, marked by giving red roses and chocolate hearts or by sending valentines.

Often derided as a "Hallmark holiday," Valentines Day - also known as Saint Valentines Day - is certainly a boom for greeting card companies, florists and chocolatiers. But long before the mass marketing, Valentines Day was still a high point for courtly love.

So, how and where did the holiday get its start? And who is Saint Valentine and why has he become the symbol for love?

For starters, Saint Valentine is probably not just one man, but rather any of a number of martyred saints named Valentine or Valentinus, derived from the Latin word for valor. According to Christian tradition, all of these Saint Valentines are believed to have been martyred on February 14.

The first Valentinus, Valentine of Rome, was a priest and doctor, who treated even those patients who could not afford to pay him. The second Saint Valentine was beheaded for protecting Christians from the Romans. And the third is Valentine of Terni, a bishop believed killed during the persecution of Emperor Aurelian.

While these saints likely bestowed upon Valentines Day its name, they still do not explain the holiday's love connection. To understand that, one has to go back even further in history - to the Romans.

Historians believe that the holiday of love derives its origins from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia. On February 15, the Romans celebrated the Feast of Lupercus, to honor and thank the wolf god who watched over the Roman shepherds and their flocks.

While Lupercus doesn't seem to have much to do with romance, there was a number of fertility customs associated with his feast. In one of these rituals, women would put their names on slips of paper in a box, to be drawn out by men. The two would then be coupled up for the duration of the festival - or for the rest of the year in some cases. This fertility-friendly feast gives some clue as to the romantic - or at least procreative - nature of the holiday. But we don't celebrate Saint Lupercus Day on February 14th. So, how did the Valentine saints become associated with the Roman god?

Legend has it that in the 3rd century, the Roman emperor Claudius II banned marriages to prevent draft dodgers. Only single men had to go into the army - and too many young men were getting married.

A Christian priest named Valentinus of Rome ignored the ban, continuing to officiate marriages in secret. Valentinus was caught and sentenced to death - an order carried out on February 14. Another story tells of a priest named Valentinus who was jailed and later executed for helping Christians. He fell for his jailer's daughter and sent her plaintiff love notes signed "from your Valentine".

In the late 5th century, Emperor Gelasius declared February 14th a holy day in honor of Valentinus (probably the first, but perhaps the second), allowing Christianity to adopt some of the love day customs previously associated with paganism.

The traditions were reworked, however, to honor the Christian martyrs. For example, instead of boys pulling girls' names from boxes, both boys and girls chose names of martyred saints to emulate for the year.

It took nearly nine centuries, until the advent of the Renaissance, for Valentines Day to return to its earlier love-based roots. With Romantic art, poetry and music flourishing, the time was ripe for a celebration of love.

http://www.holidays.net/amore/story.html

Minsan nakikilala tayo ng mag tao sa una nilang impression, which they used as there tool for measuring how easy us to deal with. May mga tao tayong madaling pakisamahan sa UNA because maybe we've known what is there real personality. At meron ding mga tao na di naten inaasan na darating sa buhay natin at madaming babaguin in a good way. ang pag kakaibigan ay hindi nasusukat kung gaano nanatin sila katagal na nkasama kundi kung anu ang mga bagay naibahagi nila sa atin that we are inspired by those things. Marami sa buhay talaga ang masasabi mung kaibigan but there are many peoplr that excelled in your expectations that the others.

Ako oo marami akong mga friends but only few ang lagi kong kasama at kakwentuhan those are people that I must say that my real friends.

But I am not letting myself to stay with them as always because I know that time would come that I will be meeting a lot more and knowing people in their own way sa pag papahalaga ng mga kaibigan.

RAIN and LOVE

I just got to school from home and the weather was so bad now, I was so wet in my uniform and I am now here at cafe shop nearby school waiting for my class. I’m kind of pissed when it rains adding that I am wearing my uniform that can easily be dirt. But I remember that I have experience that I fall in loved when it rains. It happen when my duty was cut because the weather is too bad and the weather forecast announced that we were experiencing a typhoon. Because my parents know that am arriving home the next day I’ve decided to spend my night with my special one. My plan is to sleep in their house for a night only but the rain never stops the next morning, manila was in the state in calamity that time because the whole city was in flood. There is no work hours and we were suffering a wide black out. And I realize that maybe the rain wanted us to stay together, because we both wished that sometime we were hoping to spend time together and what we are wishing for was granted not just for a night but I spend my weekends with my special one.

How happy I am when we were together even there was no electricity and very quite night, only our laughers heard from outside the house, we were playing cards, boards, and no ending storytelling and confession.

 Until now I am thinking how lovely when it rains and imagining that it makes your wish come true.

make difference from here!: BAD..thing!

make difference from here!: BAD..thing!: " Life is a matter of different situations. It may be too difficult and sometimes too easy to handle, there are challenges that w..."

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Life is a matter of different situations. It may be too difficult and sometimes too easy to handle, there are challenges that we often quitted because of hardships that we are facing, and sometimes we are committed to ignore this because we know in the right time it fades. Who are the people who did not love themselves? Everybody loves themselves but may be sometimes they aren’t to think really hard in giving decisions.


How far would you give to make someone happy and be in love to you for a long time or what else would you risk for the one you wanted to be yours. These are questions that we should asked to ourselves and make us realize,that if we have gone something for that person, are we sure that he will able to give back what we have given to him. Is there an assurance that they will love us the way we wanted for any relationship. 


Indeed, this might happen to several people, which who were really in love. Which I think, this people are examples of those who are fitted to love by any other, for the reason that they are not afraid to risk anything and give all that they have.


“Ignoring them is an action of superiority- you have no rights to play the feelings of others and taking advantage to them. They are just in love and you only have to do is to appreciate them, because we never know in the future this person you ignore is the one you needed”