We as human beings have made a habit of blaming people or things when things go wrong. We blame the weather for ruining our plans to go on a picnic. Blame our significant other when we screw up, or simply blame anyone or anything when having a bad day. This is easy to do. The one thing we fail to do many times is become responsible for what is happening or take accountability for when things go wrong.
When it comes to epilepsy, we tend to immediately blame epilepsy for everything that is happening to us. Losing friends, not being able to remember things, or relationships getting ruined or not being able to find someone. I am writing today to let you know that we shouldn’t blame everything on Epilepsy. Yes, you read that correctly, don’t blame every negative event on epilepsy.
For example, did you have many friends before epilepsy stick its ugly head in your life and now they are gone? News flash, they weren’t your friends. Friends stick with you no matter what, those people who ran are not real friends. Many people with epilepsy are single, don’t blame epilepsy! We are single because we choose to be single because we have let fear become the main reason for either asking someone on a date or think they will not like you if they see you have a seizure. It’s a realistic fear, but we forget that epilepsy is becoming more common and most likely some of the same people you were afraid to date has a family member or friend who is fighting this.
Was your relationship a dream relationship before becoming unglued at the seams when it decided to appear? That same relationship which you had, would not have lasted, these people were not in love with you. These people are not willing to fight with you and would rather run than stand by you.
When you forget things and say my memory is bad because of epilepsy, um, not entirely true. Do you exercise your mind? Do you read to enhance your vocabulary? Do you challenge your mind? If you mindlessly watch television, scroll through social media, watch YouTube videos. Of course your mind will forget things sooner, you are not exercising the most important muscle, your brain. Think of this analogy, if you went to the gym religiously and stopped going, over time, are you going to be as strong as before? Of course not, your muscles will turn to mush.
In conclusion, there are many things we can blame epilepsy for, the falls we take, missing teeth, injuries, and breaking furniture from time to time; but, the one thing we should not do is take the “woe is me” stance and blame our life on epilepsy. Always rise up and fight, the road might be longer, but it will happen.
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