Agape... love.

I recently got my first tattoo!! I've been talking about doing it for forever, but finally got the guts. On a weekend trip to Austin with my "sistas", we decided to just do it! We each had an idea of what we wanted and kept throwing ideas around. Since I am leaving the country soon, we really wanted to get a tattoo that meant something to each of us to be our "sista tattoos". ;) Well, all the back and forth with trying to decided what to get and where.... we ended up changing our minds on the spur of the moment while in the parlor. Best un-thought-out idea I've made.

αγάπη (agápē) - Greek for Unconditional Love

I have been so delightfully surprised at the number of people who are intrigued by my new tat. I get so many inquiries and feedback from strangers, which is the best! My barista at Starbucks today was very curious what it meant and I was thrilled to tell him, of course. When I told him, he got really excited and just went off about how his mother had just recently told him about the different greek words for love and how they all differ. He said, "Agape is my favorite. I've found that it is more unbiased than eros. Agape love is the best kind." I couldn't agree more. Eros is the romantic type of love involving attraction and whatnot. For this kind of love, there are prerequisites. With the Agape form of love, it's unconditional, unbiased, true. There's nothing that causes or diminishes Agape.

I desperately hope that I can be a true example and carrier of Agape love. May I love wildly, openly and without bias.