I had stumbled upon the Nie Nie Dialogues blog many months ago. I am not a regular reader but I do find myself checking in every once in a while. Short bio on the blog is her and her husband were in a plane crash, survived, and are dealing with the aftermath of their injuries and rehabilitation. And 4 children. And the life they have in the community they live in.
It's a hard blog for me to read, but fascinating... and inspiring. And not at all like my life in the tiniest bit.
It is written from a religious angle which I just don't relate to personally; the inspirational part for someone like myself is her struggle with self-perception and coming to terms with her "new life" as "someone else". I cannot imagine the difficulty if you not only were in pain but did not look like yourself or feel like yourself when others looked at you, and for Nie Nie she goes on to describe how hard it is getting out of bed knowing that. Wishing she still was as beautiful as she was before, and having to redefine what that means to her. You can go a large part of your life as one person and suddenly it could be taken away.. and I suppose victims of accidents and things like that are told constantly they should just be happy they're alive, they are still beautiful, there is so much love and sunshine in the world etc. Something was lost, though, it was. I do not find acceptance inspiring, especially from a religious standpoint, so that's why her blog is so great. I am inspired to myself be even more genuine when we see loss, and just be there when people we love are going through it, and not need to be a reminder that there is sunshine in the world because the sun comes up everyday whether we remind people of it or not.
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