An Irresistible Love Towards Chocolates...

I’ve always been a choco freak right from my childhood days till date. And the weirdest thing about that is, am unable to control the immense love I have for chocolates though being warned now and then about the fat consequences and diabetes threats. So, today I was thinking that this wonderful lover of mine, chocs, must get a place in my blog too along with my other favourites.

 My acquaintance with chocolates started when I was a kid. It was almost a kinda stressbuster tool for my parents at that time to stop me from crying or getting irritated over petty things. The moment any chocolate comes before my eyes, thats it! All other things and the whole world would seem to be empty except the chocolate (be it dairy milk or five star at that time) with its attractive wrap, my mouth would start excreting its salivary glands in a huge manner and a heavy sigh of relief would come for my parents thus escaping from my torture. Then, my attachment towards chocolates became even closer when my dad started going to Europe thus coming back packed up with lots and lots of Swiss chocolates of different varieties. OMG! I still remember me waiting for my dad’s return just to heap up the chocolates and store them in the refrigerator and eat them for weeks. Yes, its not just tasting them, I would literally eat them, like its one of my mandatory meal for one time..........and that was the time I got the name in my home as “Our Choco stealer”. However efforts they take to hide the chocolates from me, they’ll be in vain as my eyes would easily detect the location of my lover chocolates and start relishing them.

Then, during my teenage and college days, these chocolates were my main weight deduction tools. Yes, ppl easily started finding when my dad was in town and when he was not, seeing my physical appearance. To be more precise, whenever my dad goes abroad and returns back with my chocolates, my unstoppable relationship with chocs will make be bulge atleast a couple of pounds from which all my folks easily figure out that my dad’s back at home. Whatever people around me say, even today, many of my close mates know how to get any favour from me. Yes...just buy me a bundle of my favourite chocolate...its as simple as that! J

Wanna know why these chocolates have become my intimate lovers? Here comes my answer for that. The color, wowww...the chocolate browny tempting color, next the texture, which simply slips off inside my mouth gushing out a delicious taste thus triggering my taste buds, and above all, it makes me forget the world and everything around me. Whenever am in stress, be it me or my parents, buy some chocs for me and I eat and eat till I forget my sorrow. May sound so stupid but it really works out for me and may be thats the close bonding between me and my chocolatyyyyyyyy! Some of my favourite chocolates are Ferraro Rocher, Dairy milk silk and many more which I can’t even remember the names. Moreover, anything made of chocolate, be it biscuits or cakes or pudding or any recipes, makes my taste buds yearn for them. And now recently, Nutella which is used as a breakfast option with bread or dosas, I just eat it separately for my own pleasure....Sounds too much crazy uh? Yup...thats why I’ve called it as “An irresistible Love”

One of the main reasons I quote to all around me who used to ridicule me of eating too much chocolates is, Chocolate is good for health, its good for heart, which I read in an article. This phrase of mine made many ppl who argued with me for intaking chocos to keep silent. And so, I thought now too, I should remind people of the good points about my ever-favourites chocolates!

It turns out that chocolate—especially dark chocolate—reduces body mass, prevents blood clots, improves numeracy, may prevent cancer, and doesn’t ruin your complexion.

1.    Chocolate decreases stroke risk

2.    Chocolate reduces the likelihood of a heart attack

3.    Chocolate protects against blood inflammation

4.    Chocolate helps with math

5.    Chocolate may prevent cancer

6.    Chocolate reduces the risk of diabetes

7.    Chocolate is good for your skin

8.    Chocolate can control coughs

9.    Chocolate improves blood flow

10.  Chocolate strengthens your brain

11.  Chocolate makes you live longer

Wanna know in detail? Just click this link below.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/28/11-reasons-chocolate-is-good-for-your-health.html

So, that’s what I wished to share with everyone who reads my blogs. And the main reason for sharing this post today is, yes, again that’s a chocolaty reason! :P Am waiting for my dad’s arrival from abroad which ultimately made me think about the chocolates and triggered me to write this post. You know what? As I started to write this post, I’ve gone a couple of times to taste my favorite Nutella…..Sounds crazy? Yup….again I say, Irresistable Love ;)

THE EXEMPLARY ‘AWESOME TWOSOME’!

Who could have guessed
When you began married life
How entwined you'd become
As husband and wife.
After 25 years 
You still say "I Love You"
In many different ways.
May Silver remind you,
You share a special happiness
Life gives to very few.

Yes…This special silver wedding anniversary wish is for none other than my dearest mom and dad who celebrated their 25^th wedding anniversary just one week back on March 2^nd. As planned perfectly, me and my brother gave them a surprise celebration and made them feel honoured and special on that day to the maximum extent we could do it. But, I felt, this celebration, this moment….that they have come to their life means so much beyond than just the blashes and blasts we had on that day….I felt that I should really cherish this couple who have been a role-model for me by leading a wonderful and jubilant matrimonial life. And this post, I whole-heartedly dedicate to this admirable couple whom I have adored a lot in my life.

Rather than going on telling about the life they had or both of their personal traits or blabbering something like that, I wish to share something very sensible and useful for all including me which will be helpful for our lives also. There are innumerable characteristic traits they possess which can portray themselves as the best husband and wife. As far as I have observed them all these 25 years, there are lessons they have taught me in how to carry on a successful marriage life and here are those virtuous qualities like priceless pearls which every couple should practice in their life for a great-going everlasting marriage life.

  

·        The first and the foremost basic thing is MUTUAL ACCEPTANCE AND SATISFACTION of your spouse with your whole heart and soul. Liking and loving your partner for whom or what he/she is very important in living together for the whole life. Only when this basic satisfaction is got with your soul mate, you can move on with the other elements needed to build up your life.

·        This is a common saying that most newly married couples would hear as an elderly advice: “A family that prays together stays together”. Though it may sound absurd for individuals who are atheists, the others must surely stick on to the truth that PRAYER will be a principal element triggering the happiness and joy and peace of your family life together. Only when the two newly wedded ones give their marital life into the Hands of the Almighty with oneness of mind and Spirit, the real peace will hover in their homes.

·        Now, the core part of the wedded life comes which is the sharing of true love. OK, now here comes the confusion….What is trueee love? Yes, instead of simply telling plainly true love, pure love, divine love, etc, its better to say it clearly in terms of practical actions what it really means and how it will be shown in deeds. TRANSPARENCY, FAITHFULNESS, UNDERSTANDING, CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, CARE, AFFECTION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT (financial), HELPFULNESS, UNDIVIDED PROTECTION, TRUST and above all GIVING YOUR FULL LOVE AND SUPPORT to your partner are the exposed deeds of the so-called true love. When these psychological intimacies are perfectly handled between the two, the physical intimacy they have will be a free gift of love life filled with gaiety.

·        RIGHTFUL WAY OF COMMUNICATION between any couples will pave a smooth way for the successful running of the marriage life. Openness with your partner is important because unless you communicate, they can’t know what’s in your mind as he or she is not a mind-reader or a person with extraordinary mind-reading capabilities. And the communication between the two should be sensible with the right tone of voice avoiding the sharing of unnecessary stupid things which will rot a relationship. Tongue-handling in a wise way is very important, especially for women to handle their husbands.

·        Giving FREEDOM for your spouse in every way possible is very significant in the tight bonding of a husband-wife relationship. Pushing hard your own tastes or opinions into your partner’s mind and compelling them to execute it will never work in any progressive way, instead, on the opposite. So, a sense of reasonable amount of freedom and equality should prevail between both partners always as it will increase the freeness and love and trust for each other as years pass on.

·        A main thing to focus on is the AVOIDANCE OF THIRD PERSONS into your love life. Going and sharing your personal family problems or things about your partner to your friends or colleagues at office will gradually serve to be a destroyer of your trust for each other in the bond you have established through marriage. Whatever be the matter, big or small, the best way to solve it is by sitting and talking within two of you and coming out tension free.

·        Finally, in your significant role as a husband or wife in the family, SAY ‘BYE BYE’ TO EGO and that’s it…….! All problems can be handled and ended within the four walls of your room. After all, life is too short to make it complicated! Angers will fly away where there’s too much of love and it’s as simple as that.

So, these are some of the greatest attributes I have noticed in my parents which I feel are the factors that have made them drive joyfully in their 25 years of blissful marriage journey ride. I really salute this Exemplary ‘Awesome Twosome’ and pray and wish them more blessed years of happiness and togetherness forever……………………

 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

 ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

 ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 

⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸ LOVE NEVER FAILS.