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By Cris Alarcon, (April 15, 2025) \u2014<\/p>\n

Two pieces of prose and poetry shaped my life from childhood to this day, The Road Not Taken and Whosoever be a man must be a nonconformist. Life with epileptic seizure means I take a road less traveled and that I will not conform to a typical life. Each is shaped by the spirit of Frost and Emerson, but forged in the fires of my own experience: seizure, survival, and stubborn, holy nonconformity.<\/p>\n

My connection to \u201cThe Road Not Taken\u201d and \u201cWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist\u201d runs deep. Both are about choosing integrity over ease, authenticity over approval. And when epilepsy enters the picture, that choice is no longer poetic\u2014it\u2019s lived, moment by moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lobe Not Taken\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

Two paths diverged behind my eyes\u2014
One bright and smooth beneath blue skies,
The other sparked with shadowed flame,
Where not a single step’s the same.<\/p>\n

I did not choose it. Let that be clear.
The seizure came, unasked, sincere.
With flashing light and stolen breath,
It carved a corridor through death.<\/p>\n

And still\u2014I walked. I would not kneel.
With every fall, I rose more real.
No padded life, no plastic grace,
Could touch the truth I came to face.<\/p>\n

They said conform. Sit still. Be meek.
But my own voice began to speak.
A nonconformist soul I am\u2014
An echo of Emerson\u2019s bold stand.<\/p>\n

I walk with lightning in my brain,
Through silent woods and psychic rain.
I take the road with jagged stone\u2014
The lobe not taken, mine alone.<\/p>\n

“The Choice Was Made For Me”<\/em><\/h3>\n

They say I chose the road less traveled. But the truth? The road chose me.<\/p>\n

Epilepsy isn\u2019t a journey I sign up for. It\u2019s not a road you scout with a compass and a fresh canteen. One day, without warning, the map catches fire in your hands. And what\u2019s left are seizures and stares, medications and memories gone missing. I didn\u2019t choose to be different\u2014but I chose to walk on anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n

While others marked milestones by graduation dates or promotions, mine came measured in months seizure-free, new medications tolerated, MRIs unremarkable. And yet, even when my body betrayed me, I refused to betray myself. I would not become a statistic or a patient number.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist,\u201d Emerson wrote\u2014and I believe him. Living with epilepsy is not about overcoming weakness; it\u2019s about embracing strength no one else can see. When your brain throws sparks and lightning, you either cower in fear\u2014or you learn to dance with the storm.<\/p>\n

And that, I suppose, has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Lobe Not Taken: An Epileptic Memoir<\/h3>\n

Chapter One: The Spark<\/h4>\n

I was born different. Not in any way you could see.<\/p>\n

The seizures started before I was 5 but stopped.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t restart until I was an teenager, when most kids are discovering freedom and I was suddenly learning how to relearn things I used to know. My first seizure came like a thief in the night, stealing seconds from my life I would never reclaim. One moment I was standing in a classroom, and the next I was staring at the ceiling tiles, surrounded by panicked faces I couldn\u2019t place.\u00a0 One time in my 50s I woke up in an E.R. with a nurse asking me if I knew my name..\u00a0 I thought it was such\u00a0 dumb question!\u00a0 Then I realized i could not!<\/p>\n

No one talks about the silence of epilepsy\u2014the void. It\u2019s not the convulsions or the hospital visits that shape you. It\u2019s the quiet afterward. The blank spaces. The skipped beats in memory. That\u2019s where the fear lives.<\/p>\n

And so, my road split. I did not walk the same path as my peers.<\/p>\n

Chapter Two: Emerson Was Right<\/h4>\n

I clung to Emerson like a raft. \u201cWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.\u201d That line hit me in the gut the first time I read it. It told me I didn\u2019t have to be like them. I didn\u2019t have to apologize for the oddness of my days, or for the medication fog that sometimes made my thoughts feel like molasses.<\/p>\n

When people saw a condition, I began to see a calling. I was different, yes\u2014but that difference meant I would never live a typical life. And maybe, just maybe, that could be a good thing.<\/p>\n

I learned to speak the language of neurologists. I learned to advocate for myself in exam rooms where no one believed a seizure could be silent. I learned to mourn the life I thought I\u2019d live\u2014and then I built a better one.<\/p>\n

Chapter Three: The Road Less Traveled<\/h4>\n

Living with epilepsy is a full-time job. You have to predict the unpredictable, plan around the unknown. Medications change. Triggers evolve. And society? Society doesn\u2019t know what to do with you.<\/p>\n

There were jobs I didn\u2019t get. Relationships that didn\u2019t survive. Whole chapters I had to cross out and rewrite.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the secret nobody tells you: the road less traveled is full of color. I met people I never would have known\u2014artists, advocates, scientists with fire in their eyes. I became someone I never expected. Stronger. Wilder. Wiser.<\/p>\n

There is power in saying, “I will not be what you expect.”<\/p>\n

Chapter Four: The Lobe Not Taken<\/h4>\n

The temporal lobe, they said. That\u2019s where it starts.<\/p>\n

They showed me my brain on a screen once\u2014highlighted regions glowing like stars on a midnight map. It looked beautiful to me. I wonder if poets would\u2019ve written differently had they seen a brain mid-storm, glowing with defiant energy.<\/p>\n

I took the lobe not taken. And that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

Chapter Five: Epilogue in Progress<\/h4>\n

I still have seizures. I still fall. But I get back up with poetry in my pocket and defiance in my step.<\/p>\n

Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson raised me in ways my doctors never could. One taught me that the harder path is often the truest. The other taught me that refusing to conform isn\u2019t rebellion\u2014it\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t choose epilepsy. But I choose every day to live like it\u2019s a calling.<\/p>\n

And friend, that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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