Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Agape - the Greek way!

Off late I have started believing in the fact that the art of writing is one of the best things a person can possess. It is addictive, for sure. The more you write, the more you crave to write. Lately, I crave to write – just that I don’t get enough time to be myself and write all that I may want to. But as long as I am posting thrice in a week, it ain’t a bad number. So much for the justification (;-)

Browsed through some more blogs than the ones I usually read – which are of people I know (whoasameer, kariyal, and storytellerstory) – some of them were pretty interesting, specially the one that had some awesome pictures of different people at different times. Awesome dudes! In a world where we hardly have time for anyone other than ourselves, this group or the individual actually find time to capture people in different moods and relate things so very well. Kudos. There was another blog that interested me – the expression was a natural and very interesting to read. Thank you storyteller for introducing me to the whole lot – it is good to know that there are people who have such beautiful ways of expressing. Guess, I need to hone up my skills – of making the blog interesting (in context).

I am sure if I am at it, I will do justice to it.

But for now, there is something that I wanted to put across. Yesterday, I came across this Greek word ‘Agape' (not that I particularly have any interest in this language.) The only other thing I read somewhere about Greek language, some gone by years back, was that my name meant “Lonely” in Greek or was it German. Whatever. I wonder why they would call that lonely though.

Coming back to ‘Agape’ – it is a self-effacing, sacrificial kind of love that is exclusive, permanent, and unconditional. If love is to survive in an atmosphere of change, it must be rooted in something that is changeless. (I don’t say this, the author of the book I was reading feels so.). But what is changeless? Is love forever for those you love? Most of us blindly would say – Do you have doubts? Alright, I would also say so. But, hang on and hear to this – feelings are thoughts of the heart, instead of thoughts of the mind. The trouble is that hearts can change just as easily as minds can change. And when there is a change of the hearts, there is a change of feelings, and there is a change in your undying love. Interesting! At least I thought so.

Facets of human heart – just wanting to count them…

Stage One: Loving heart
Stage Two: Sacrificing Heart
Stage Three: Bruised Heart
Stage Four: Bleeding Heart
Stage Five: Cold Heart
Stage Six: Indifferent Heart


What a twist in my thought process – there was an assorted cd playing and suddenly I get to hear “Aika Dajiba, aika dajiba”. Never heard it before and no way wanna’ hear it …

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does Monika mean? See this link.

http://www.aboutnames.ch/HWM.htm