UNPLEASANT ACCEPTANCE

You cannot find light at the end of the tunnel without finding your way out of its
‘’contained darkness. You run and scratch, roll and crawl just to reach that ray of
light. Hoping that light could be your hope to land on your feet and move past
through an unfortunate circumstance, but what if it doesn’t seem to be that way?
That is something I could relate to the outgrowing number of people affected by
the biggest health threat of this generation, the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus
or HIV. Metaphorically speaking, I could consider the virus as the said darkness
and the people affected by it as tunnels.ty
These people are devastated and hopeless. Like tunnels they keep the darkness
and sorrow to themselves out of fear. Fear that no one will ever love them. Fear
that everyone will judge them. People they love would hate them. They are
afraid, they are ashamed. I remember someone told me that the greatest fear of
human is not death but rejection and the society made it very clear that the
saying is true just by making it too hard for these people to fit in, to feel like they
belong. Well, besides dark and the tunnel, could we take a moment to ask
ourselves who’s going to be the light at the end of it? Who’s going to give them
hope to land on their feet? Is it the medicines? No. They’ve been into emotional
distress for so long, can barely accept themselves and already had enough
sorrow. May we always remember that we are supposed to be their hope. Listen
ladies and Gentlemen, our social obstacle is the virus, never the people. Yes, the
light has always been us and it is our moral responsibility to accept our brothers
and sisters no matter how unpleasant it can be.

Rainbow

Your still the one

The day you said goodnight

Maybe the night