After I finished high school I took a gap year which was the greattest year of my life. I felt invisible I never spent a single weekend home, I would travel miles hooking up with different people. To be honest I even lost count of people I’ve slept with. I thought I was enjoying life I knew the risks but I just didn’t care. I applied to different universities and different funding, the following year I was accepted to study medicine and I had funding. My family and friends were happy for me. 

I left home and went to study medicine in one of the prestigious university. I was happy because I was independent, and I would go out without being asked annoying questions like where are going?

First year medical school felt great and I was doing very well in my studies. However what I was doing during my gap year, continued when I got to varsity. I was sleeping around: to be honest I was a fuck boy🙈. 

Strangely, I was and still I am such an inspiration to my family and community. People didn’t knew my deepest secret, that I was gay and I was sleeping around. As a medical student I should have known the risks but I just didn’t care, I thought I was enjoying life. 

But every year when I got to res from December recess, my friends would say, “Sihle you lost weight.” My family didn’t notice that I was losing weight but my varsity friends noticed. Everytime when they say I’ve lost weight I would just brush it aside and say “You know Medical School is Soo difficult and stressful”. 

As a gay or bisexual person never ever sleep around without using condoms, people are sick out there. Always have condoms with you, and go for testing.