Aiding AIDS



Aiding AIDS

Broken souls amidst a competitive society, perhaps it wasn’t even their fault! AIDS a diseases once feared and dreaded amongst the literate lot of our fast growing world still creates an awakening. Technologies may have changed, life styles may have improved but how many of us have really taken time out to think of, maybe, a special case AIDS patient we have known ?
With just the basic knowledge that it is an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and mostly not contagious unless you are in close touch with blood fluids of the infected person , I really did not give a thought to the thousands who are suffering of it and  how , due to the lack of understanding from people that surround them, their world closes down to emptiness. Reading inspiring quotes and life stories  on the internet, I recollect  a case where a woman stands by her husband’s death bed, a man dying at a very young age of 32 years only, later to be told that he was dying of AIDS. The lady had to face yet another dying truth that  she probably could be suffering of the same. A mother of 2 kids,  she never accused her husband of unfaithfulness rather accepted him as the father of her 2 daughters. She knew that he was the reason for  transmission of the disease to her but the simple act of acceptance  without accusing anyone had lead to a happy life with her family. Its difficult for an AIDS patient to cope up with the disease itself, the weakness felt can be imagined, it’s a this point  of time that I remember the quotes of late Princess Diana which says , “HIV does not make people dangerous to know., so you shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaves knows they need it”. Yes they need our love, our care and our understanding. The internet floods with beautiful stories how AIDS patients were able to carry on with their lives with the support and help of their near and dear ones. A story tells us  about a lady who wear the Red ribbon for all the near and dear ones that she has lost due to this disease. A remembrance of the beautiful individuals they were more than a reminder of the disease.
A believer of social service and always on a look out for NGO who need help, the truth remains in me, I FEAR THEM. I am afraid that just walking into a room where an AIDS patient lies I would perhaps contract it, an un rational fear that I am  sure many of us carry. I recollect an incident where I was telling a friend that we should visit these special cases, the answer received is, why trouble yourself with dangerous things!Thoughts raced through my mind that very moment  that perhaps she was right, I was putting myselfinto dangerous circumstances and perhaps had a lot to lose then gain. That day I let go of the thought to visit any NGO dealing with this disease, I concentrated on cancer instead…
Today, when I was given this chance to express myself, I admit, I have been wrong. I have been born for a purpose, a purpose to help the unfortunate, a purpose to create an awareness and for a purpose to do just the simple things in life,  perhaps as simple as share a smile with those who can’t smile. Am sure if we overcame our fears and stopped discrimination we could be  good shepherds mending broken souls. Reaching out to those who need our love and our smiles and telling them that the world is indeed much more broken then this disease, would indeed be a great awareness program in itself.
They say that positive thoughts and affirmations heal lives, our good deeds would be the positive affirmation to the AIDS patients, they would  understand that they are not alone and that things are not as really bad as it is. Lets make a promise to ourselves today, first , to overcome fear that AIDS is not as bad as it may seem and second  help to reach out in our own way, paying the much needed visits to these patients, contributing our finances to the good work of the various NGO around the world or just the simple act of volunteering will help in a big way to open up doors to this cause. Let’s be part of the red ribbon movement cause it’s time to give our hearts and roses to them ……………

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