Take The Test, Take Control…
We are loyal, We are passionate, We are faithful, We are creative, We compromise, We sacrifice, We suffer long, We are patient….all in the name of sex. We own the emotional and physical responsibilities of engaging in such an act but we neglect to address the health of it all. Why is this such a taboo? Why can I say I love you but to ask you to wear a condom is an insult? How can my heart endure your cheating, insults, and abuse but a test result is too much for me to bear and id rather just not know. We must take control and take the test! Take Control, Take the Test is the 2012 campaign for National HIV Testing Day-June 27th. I am not sure of the thought process behind this slogan but I understand that as we take steps towards a better health we gain control in other aspects of our lives.
It is time out for us as a people allowing our loyalty, trust, and upbringing to be the death of us. We need to give ourselves permission to love ourselves just as much as we love each other. I cannot truly love you until I have discovered how to love me. Oh boy do we know how to love! Love causes us to do some crazy things! In our reckless craze for loving others, may our love for ourselves be equally as important. If we take our love for ourselves just as serious as our love for others we will find the balance between the two needed to live a healthy, fun, productive life with not many regrets.
Take the test, Take control. Taking the test is about more than the results. It’s about your ability to take the first step necessary to say: I am worth it. Through the anxiety, butterflies, repentance and the like as you sit and wait on the results, no matter the outcome you will feel and be better in the end. A surge of power will rise up in you that say…”I now know and now I will gird up enough strength to establish my next steps”.
If you have the power to love or lust, you have the power to get tested; same person, same will---different results. Take the test, Take control!!! To lose or never gain control is to not have the ability to make the necessary decisions to live your best life now. As you make personal deposits your control meter increases…the more it increases the better, smarter, wiser moves you are able to make. Don’t let sex steal your control; keep a nice grip on it! Getting tested is a control deposit. Make your deposit today! Take the Test, Take Control!!!
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