Had an awesome day today! It's World AIDS Day, and DT-X had an event - Red Ribbon Freedom in the morning, and a candlelight vigil - Red Ribbon Light in the evening. Ooo. . and I was a compeer in the morning! :P Haven't ever spoken onstage as such, so it was quite an interesting experience. Especially since I did not get nervous despite so many people! :)
Evening was candle light vigil, human chain, and HIV testing. It was a lil freaky to get tested for HIV. . I guess it's the nervousness each person who gets tested would go through. After all, there's no symptom that would tell me if I have HIV, or if some incident had caused it! It wasn't the needle that scared me, it wasn't the little amount of blood; it was the fact that no1 on this earth can say for sure that they are HIV negative! And I think it's something that everyone should do. Get tested for HIV so that they know what kind of thoughts go through a person's mind. So that they know they are eq
ually vulnerable. So that they don't discriminate a person who is living with HIV. The result comes tomorrow. I'm positive that it'll be negative. But it's a wait that brings a lot of thoughts to the mind. A lot of what-ifs. And more than the virus, I think it's the society and stigma that would make a person feel afraid of it. And the precise reason they wouldn't want to interact with an HIV + person, with the fear that they may get it and live a similar life as well. So here I am, waiting. . . Result comes tomorrow, and till then I think how a person living with HIV would feel. . . what it would be like and what this one test could mean for so many people. . . .
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