The crazy, yet alarmingly real notion of feeling like a leper keeps millions of people living silently with HIV/Aids highly immobilised. Secrets always rob us of personal power and make us to be significantly LESS than what we really are. The fear of being identified as either one who is infected or affected by HIV/Aids creates desperate personal limitation as well as making the environment rife for the further considerable spread of the virus.
Since the cataclysmic days of the early 1980's when HIV/Aids first became a prevalent killer, medical science has advanced to the point where HIV/Aids is now a chronic manageable disease like diabetes. With proper medication, nutrition and armed with a "positive" attitude, anyone infected by the Human Immunodeficiency virus can live a perfectly normal life that need not be blighted by any associated fear. HIV/Aids has really come to change human consciousness and behaviour in positive ways and the sooner we grasp the important lessons and move forward with a positive spirit, the better!
Today is World Aids Day! (every day should be spent finding a solution to this human menace)
We are reminded again of the presence of HIV/Aids in the world. May our future response always be pro-active rather than passive and geared to changing the face of the pandemic because of our individual and collective reaction. Those infected can no longer afford the liberty of self-pity nor their fear based inability to own all of who and what they are. HIV/Aids is still being given too much power by remaining an unnecessary mental prison for so many who have the virus. This stale inertia does not serve in any fashion and the stress it creates powerfully enables the further deterioration of vital immunity.
Everyone is affected by HIV/Aids whether you choose to to believe it or not! The impact of this virus on humanity is considerable and has been devastatingly destructive. But it is surely time to change the face of this personal and social disaster by taking action to rebuild and to co-create a better future out of all that remains. Every adversity has the hidden potential to expand us beyond comprehension; our attitude is all that needs to be re-engineered to make the profound difference. This World Aids Day needs to become a significant turning point where we choose to become MORE rather than LESS because of HIV/Aids.
We all gain a sense of meaningful life purpose by helping others. Many feel stripped of the desire to live and often hope for early death because of having been infected by HIV/Aids. They feel desperately hopeless and their deep inherent negativity acts as a huge drag on society in general. These destructive attitudes need to be changed because there is no need for shame or loathing when modern medicine provides such easy relief from potential suffering. We all need to mobilise our minds by instilling a driving purpose and HIV/Aids certainly gives us considerable scope and opportunity for such life enhancing purpose.
The world has millions of Aids orphans because of the effects of this pandemic. These young lives need to be nurtured and properly directed in a way that empowers rather than leaving them as victims of cruel circumstance. Here lies massive opportunity for those who have the virus to actively work to positively change the lives of these orphans by contributing time, money, expertise or a combination of these three. By doing so you are giving back to life in an act of gratitude for your life which is healing in itself and are creating a valuable life purpose which may hitherto not have existed.
As one living well with HIV (having nearly died of Aids two years ago), I have a vision to change the face of this scourge by mobilising the mass of people infected or affected by HIV/Aids to positively change the young lives of those left abandoned by their parent's Aids related deaths. We can no longer just watch the daily toll, but need to be part of a meaningful, well-planned solution that would positively enable the lives of all concerned.
Today I invite YOU to offer some of your time, money or talents to make a difference. Action rather than passive and often selfish inaction is what is now required. Here is a chance to turn your adversities to positive account by making a contribution. Let's change the dire future of those who have been orphaned by HIV/Aids and make sure that they enter adult life as positive contributors to society as well. Every negative has the potential to become a powerful positive with changed attitude and active commitment.
Please mail me today at indigo-man@indigo-man.com as you mobilise your first step to change the face of this pandemic. Since World Aids Day 2008, how have you made a difference rather than being part of an ongoing problem?
Pledge your time, talents and money and let's all make a huge difference! Let's all choose to be MORE!
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Thank you for your all-important & positive blog on people living with HIV/Aids...I wish it was mandatory reading for every single human being on this planet....
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about this virus being a manageable, chronic disease with today's medication. I often say the same and, compare it to diabetes, as well, although, I'm quite aware that the way MOST contract the virus, do so in ways that are not easily talked about...hence, the stigma. How does one change the way society has thought for thousands of years? Is it possible? As one with several "issues", I watch what is happening in the fashion world, regarding the skeletal models vs. "real" people with fascination...only a few hundred years ago, heavy was "in"...yet, we hope to change people's views that have been one way for thousands....am I too negative for so early in the morning? I think not; I said it would be hard not impossible.
As an HIV+ single mom, I have heard the man in my life, whom I contracted the virus from, bemoan how people assume he's either gay or a junkie, or both, when they find out his status. I don't entirely understand, being a woman, most people know how I got it- although, honestly, most people have no freakin' clue about my status; still, empathy aside, I often counter his negativity with "you're lucky this is a 'gay thing' because, from what I see, the gay community mobilizes like no other, makes noise where noise needs to be heard like no other and, Goddess forbid, HIV/Aids was just a perceived "junkie" disease, we would not be any where near the medication we are at today!" From the heterosexual community to the gay community, I thank you for your efforts...but we cannot stop now! As much as sex are the veins in the body of society, money are it's arteries! And, there is no money in a cure...certainly not as much as there is in pharmaceuticals, and with this major hurdle in mind, we as a community, not as a gay or hetero community, but as a HUMAN community, must gather all our strength and push for the final desired outcome: A CURE!