Love could be as addictive as cocain or other stimulant drugs.
Scientific research reveals that when you are attracted to someone your brain
releases the drug dopamine,
giving the same reaction that taking cocaine or other drugs would create.
Attraction and lust really is like a drug. It leaves you just
wanting more. However first flush of love is temporary, lasting about only
three to seven years. The research also investigated the link between people’s
scents, facial features and genes. Being attracted to someone sparks the same
incredible feelings no matter who you are. Love really does know no boundaries.
When we are attracted to someone, part of the brain which
processes emotions is fired up causing the heart to pound three times faster
than normal and cause blood to be diverted to the cheeks and sexual organs,
which causes the feeling of butterflies in the stomach. It might look like we
are all after the perfect partner to wine and dine but underneath all that our
animal instinct, sex is booby-trapped, to make people bond with their partner.
“By nature we are all addicted to love, meaning we want it, seek it and
have a hard time not thinking about it. We need attachment to survive and we
instinctively seek connection, especially romantic connection. But there is
nothing dysfunctional about wanting love.” – Smith
Good Friday is
observed on the Friday before Easter Sunday of the holy week. [The timeline/days in the holy week are Palm Sunday - Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Maundy Thursday - Good Friday - Saturday & Easter Sunday].
On the Good Friday people all
over the world commemorate the suffering of Lord Jesus Christon the cross. It is a day of sadness to all. People reflect on the death and suffering of Jesus on this day. The suffering of Jesus was
the consequence of his love and compassion. For Jesus, love is not romance or
flirting with opposite sex, but a commitment to serve and sacrifice. He
challenged all man-made divisions of superior-inferior, uppercast-lowercast, pure-impure,
saint-sinner and cared for the deprived, poor, sick and suffering. He
proclaimed equality of all human beings. He discouraged legalistic, superstitious
and ritualistic religion, always stressing love and compassion as the root and
rationale of true religion. Jesus’ unconditional love for others is boundless.
He never hesitated to lay down his life for his friends. He said, knowing that
his actions and options were creating waves of opposition from the religious
and political authorities who sought to silence him. Despite their threats, He
didn’t retrace his steps but suffered the ignominious death on the cross, thereby
showing solidarity with those who suffer for the right cause. Jesus was
uncompromising in his jihad, fighting
evil and injustice. Good Friday is a time to remember Jesus Christ’s
crucifixion to atone for mankind’s sins and it is time when the suffering of
Jesus on the cross became a ransom which he paid for people’s sin. Many followers spend this day
in fasting, prayer, repentance, and meditation on the agony and suffering
of Christ on the cross.
Jesus was arrested by the Temple Guards in the gardens of
Gethsemane, on Maundy Thursday. Judas Iscariot, a disciple of Jesus, who received money to betray
him, guided Jesus to the garden. Judas has told the guards that whomever he
kisses is Jesus. After the arrest of Jesus he was taken to the house of Annas
(father in law of the high priest Caiaphas) for interrogation, and then sent
bound to Caiaphas. The high priest condemns Jesus on charges of blasphemy and
the Sanhedim Trial of Jesus concurs with death sentence. The solidiers mocked Jesus by dressing him in a purple robe and putting a crown of thorns on his head. Then they stripped him, made him carry a heavy wooden cross to a place called Golgotha. At Golgotha the soldiers nailed Jesus to the cross along with two theives crucified on either side of him.
The biblical account of Jesus' crucifixion and his resurrection can be found in the following passages of Scripture: Mathew 27:27-28:8; Mark 15:16-16:19; Luke 23:26-24:35; and John 19:16-20:30.
In spite of being falsely implicated, ill-treated and tortured this is what the last words Jesus Christ spoke on the cross "Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing". This could be found in Luke 23:24 in Bible.
The hands of Jesus spread on the cross tell how much he loves
us. Apart from observing Good Friday let us also discover on this occasion the
Christ consciousness in us.
