Aids Diagnosis

Since the early '80s, I knew many people who have lived and died of HIV / AIDS. Working in the theaters of Broadway in early epidemic has given me a unique view on the effect of the virus within a microcosm industry.

In general, those I knew and know who had or have HIV / AIDS response in one of two ways. Either they deplore the disease and become themselves bitter, wounded and people who are injured or they use their diagnosis as a springboard for personal transformation.

I once had a friend describe an experience of mine as "the best thing worse than ever happened to you." An HIV / AIDS diagnosis carries the same curse blessing, blessing and curse, make your choice.

At the beginning of the crisis snowballed, the hunt was on for acronyms to encapsulate the disease and its experience. From the beginning, those who seroconverted were known as PVS-AIDS patients. Shortly after, someone, perhaps wise Larry Kramer?-Modified the acronym PLWHA. People living with AIDS. What difference does an L!

I have a friend who has been living with HIV / AIDS for over 20 years. In that time he had several seizures, but he kept his eye on long-term goal was to become peaceful in the face of HIV / AIDS. Pacific in the crises of the immune system. Pacific facing "good" numbers, and peaceful face of "bad" numbers. And facing the peaceful views of everyone.

He found, as he focused on creating peace for himself with his syndrome, the only thing he had to face and overcome before all was fear. Writing it like that, it seems so simple, but in truth, there were so many facets of the fear he has spent almost all of his two decades as he dealt with the ins and outs of its own care, excavation and recovery of fear some form or another.

Some aspects of these names: the fear of death, of course, fear of living and being sick, afraid to live and survive when others have been and are dying, fear of sex, fear of its own homophobia, fear of what other people think that fear of WADA and their solutions many times more toxic and their dependence on the terrible statistics, the fear of his parents disown him and discover the afraid of his own self-loathing, fear of never having a lover again. The list, my friend discovered, was endless until one day he woke up in a sea of serenity.

That day, he spoke to me and said: "HIV / AIDS is the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm finally scared. "

And it is. You see, what my friend has been left in the consciousness, watch, and heal every aspect of his fear. I've never known anyone as brave as him. Never. Nothing daunt him. Not only that, but now he has faced and overcome his fear, he changed his long-term objective about his diagnosis. Now his goal is to give others an experience of fearlessness around HIV / AIDS. His message?

HIV / AIDS death penalty is not one, is a life sentence.

PS I am aware that my friend has a distinct advantage. He lives in a Western nation that makes available the drug cocktails that have allowed him to live well in spite of his status. I am also aware that others with the disease live in conditions that are much more serious.

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