the meaning behind the name
The Agape (Ancient Greek ἀγάπη, agapē) is a Greco-Christian term that refers to love, "the highest form of love, charity" and "the love of God for man and of man for God". Within Christianity, agape is considered to be the love originating from God or Christ for humankind. In the New Testament, it refers to the covenant love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God; the term necessarily extends to the love of one's fellow man. Some contemporary writers have sought to extend the use of agape into non-religious contexts.
What is the agape?
"The Agape" meaning the unconditional love, was founded to reach out to anyone who is battling with emotional stress, anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. As a person who was forced to overcome all these struggles on her own in many different stages of her life, Dehini Wickramasekara (founder of The Agape) carries endless empathy for those are going through the same situation.
The Agape is more of a personal friend who is without judgement and willing to listen in order for individuals to find their own way out of troubled waters. There's a lot of suicide awareness and support for those who are battling depression nowadays but sometimes it's important to simply create a safe space for someone to open up about all their traumas and experiences regardless of who they are and where they come from. There are thousands of people out there who go from battle to battle everyday, who cannot afford professional help, who are scared that the society they live in might expose their situation and who just wish they could simply talk their hearts out to a stranger who's willing to listen. The Agape was created for this very purpose, to be a virtual therapy session where one finds their own strength and their own light.
Breathe
People expect so much from you, don’t you think?
In different volumes, in different measures, everyday there is some kind of expectation you naturally feel as if you should meet. The question is, how long before the true you fights within you to conquer the person you’ve grown to believe you should be? And ironically enough almost every time when it happens, none of those who expected so much from you are around to notice. The world may see the exhaustion of trying to change the very essence of who you are, and label it as a failure. Or the liberating feeling of your true self would seem to the rest of the world as if “you have changed”…
We are so extremely concerned about letting people down and in the pointless pursuit of pleasing the rest of the world we forget, who is going to save you when you let yourself down? I fail to believe that we; the most intelligent species on the planet, are here to spend a lifetime contemplating who we should be. Especially when we already are an absolute wonder of nature. So just breathe. Ask yourself who are you? What are you truly made of? And let yourself be you…
forgive
The most difficult form of forgiveness is forgiving ourselves for the mistakes we’ve made.
We often don’t realize it, yet most of us carry an enormous amount of guilt about letting ourselves down along the way in life. A decision you didn’t make to chose yourself over what was told to be the “right thing” at the time might hang out in the back of your head as a “what if?” A passion your soul craved but you didn’t pursue because it was not who you were “supposed to be” might visit your memories now and then as the “good old times”
I’ve always wondered why does it hurt so much, to the point we break down in unbelief when another human breaks our heart or betrays us or disappoints us. We always ask the same question; how could they? or the same statement; I never thought they would… Because over and over we have chosen another instead of ourselves. It’s a beautiful thing to do absolutely anything for another’s happiness. But it’s an absolute tragedy to tear yourself apart just to please another.
Forgive yourself for all the times you made wrong decisions because you didn’t know better. Forgive yourself for forgetting to choose you. Forgive yourself for being so busy in life that you’ve missed out on taking a real look at you.
And then…, forgive those whoever wronged you because none of them knew you as well as you do.
