Sunday, October 24, 2010

My Does HIV Look Like Me? Video

Three years ago I came to a cross roads in my life. I am not sure if it was a mid-life crisis or just me coming to the realization that all human beings have a purpose. At first I wanted to start sharing my story as a speaker. When I was looking for HIV/AIDS organizations to get involved with a google search returned Hope's Voice. I saw that the speakers toured the United States and spoke to high schools and colleges. I instantly thought to myself  "that is what I want to do" I saw they were taking video submissions for a campaign called Does HIV Look Like Me ?  Below is the video I sent in and was chosen as a part of the campaign..I don' think I would be where I am today if I didn't take part in this campaign. Filming this video was my first step towards excepting my status and moving passed the shock of my diagnosis.




In hopes of inspiring,
Robert

3 comments:

  1. Robert, Love that, and love what you say, it would be awesome to see more people like you speak to their status.. I hope that one day soon we will see that.

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  2. You are doing exactly what I hope to do with spreading a postive message and educating people. I just found out that I am positive on June 20th of this year and it's been one hell of a roller coaster. But even in the beginning when I had first found out, I have always felt that there was a reason for all this - something good can come of it - and it will.

    Thanks for the inspiration and all that you do. I wish there were more folks like you out in the world.

    Take care.

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