The further I dig

into the well of my existence,

less and less do I question

my beginning.

How great a joy my heart doth embrace;

For no longer do I fret my future.

I truly do know myself

and no more shall I worry about

the questions MY children may prose.

For I know my history, as for my father's and mother's too.

I know who I am;

do you?

Look, I know that HIV is a serious issue. I've been out of high school barely 5 years, and I'm hearing about kids contracting it at that level. NO ONE I knew back during those years EVER had an HIV scare. They got syphilis or chalmydia; NEVER HIV.

I guess I'm just amazed that teens are being so careless. I know of someone from the Dominican Republic who had no idea that people were contracting it there. Are people THAT naive to the issue???? I am guilty of it myself. I just never guessed that teens or people in general for that matter, were being so risky with their lives and the lives of their partners.

I've always been careful. But I still...