Livingpositive7, 40

What qualities do you value most in other people? Hi everybody,

Life is too short to regret anything you do... Dating when you’re HIV+ can be challenging…

I've now been diagnosed for a year and four mouths now. When the counselor told me, I was completely and utterly confused and shocked. I just really spent some time alone for a couple of days, trying to digest and process what I had learned about myself and about my health. Just reflecting on the past and projecting the future. Thanks to my support system- my mom and my dad really supported my decision to do it. They basically told me that it can be scary and that our family is based on unconditional love, and we'll get through it. We'll just move on.

I like to have a laugh I'm serious when it's appropriate, I try to be good and positive but sometimes this is impossible. I just take my life day by day and see what comes along. I try to do as much as I can and see as many places as possible but still hold on to the good though. For anything else, I see myself as stable and fun-loving guy with good sense of humour.

A sense of humor, most definitely, that's the first one; honesty; and humility. I like people who are humble. Not false humility, because I've seen that, a lot. But true humility, is where you realize your own gifts.

Negativity, I don't particularly like negative people. I don't mind realists, I don't like people who look at every situation and are, you know, "we'll never make it." I don't know -- it doesn't solve anything as far as I'm concerned. You don't have to look at the bright side of everything, but I don't like negative people. And I don't like people who form an opinion before a situation has happened -- any kind of opinion. I like people who sort of wait until the situation happens, live in the situation, and then figure out the outcome as they go.