I don't think that has anything to do with being HIV. The world at this point is closing in on itself. People aren't open. They are afraid and uncertain about so many things. At 53 my friends are people I met in my youth. With a few others picked up on the way. I think as we get older. making those friendship bonds if something that we put less and less energy into.

In this times of cyber technology dominates everyone in the world those of us who have catastrophic diseases are feeling the pain of not being able to find or maintain friends. And too often we take this personally as there is so little connectivity among those who are healthy in many ways. This of course is completely illogical based on the availability in which technology offers is the connectivity of systems to aid humans ability to share with each other the sights and sounds of our lives. However the rejection of tech is higher than anyone could have ever expected in the 1960's until our modern day best gadgets. More education and frankly the laws of the country must be adapted such as we are seeing now with Facebook and other being called into congress to testify in the Russian Probe for no matter what side a person maybe on in the debate over collusion or not the laws allowed for a foreign aggressor to harm the USA. This has made those us who are "sick" even more accessible to harm as the criminals now have a revised road map of all those lonely people who will do almost anything for connectivity of human contact. Its a real problem that grows everyday in fear machines of the political divide.

Amen. As Auntie Mame stated in the classic 1958 film Auntie Mame: "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" So, LIVE, LIVE, LIVE! Whether you are 6 or 106 or anywhere in between.

Your still young at living,we both know what it is like to find yourself aging fastier than we want . I can remember thinking that by 50 you were dead, hell 50 isn\t old we just slow some with time

Quoting Auntie Mame from the film Auntie Mame in 1958. "Live, that's the message." "Yes! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"