An American with no arms and no legs. The long-awaited first-born, with a serious pathology
It looks like a myth, a beautiful, instructive, but unreal story. Think about it, a boy born without legs and arms, by the age of 31, is a world famous motivational speaker, happy husband and father. Nick Vujicic traveled half the world. He performed at the stadium, and 110 thousand people listened to him. Is it possible?
It happens. If every day to make a small feat. We will tell you about 12 exploits of Nick Vujicic, thanks to which you can read in his sincere smile: “I am happy.”
Birth
One of better ways to get rid of the pain of the past is to replace it with gratitude.
December 4, 1982. Dushka Vujicic is in labor. Here is the birth of the firstborn. Husband, Boris Vuychich, is present at the birth.
The shoulder showed up. Boris turned pale and left the birth room. After a while, a doctor came up to him.
"Doctor, is my son missing an arm?" Boris asked. "Not. Your son has neither arms nor legs,” the doctor replied.
Nicholas's parents (so they called the newborn) did not know anything about the Tetra-Amelia syndrome. They didn't know how to handle a baby without arms and legs. The mother did not put her son to her breast for 4 months.
Gradually, Nick's parents got used to¸ accepting and loving their son for who he is.
Childhood
Failure is the path to excellence.
Leg. So Nick called the only limb on his body. Likeness of a foot with two fused toes, subsequently separated surgically.
But Nick thinks that his "leg" is not so bad. He learned to write, print (43 words per minute), drive an electric wheelchair, push off on a skateboard.
Not everything worked right away. But, when the time came, Nick went to a regular school, along with healthy peers.
Despair
When you feel like betraying your dream, push yourself to work one more day, one more week, one more month, one more year. You'll be amazed at what happens if you don't give up.
“You can’t do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You are nobody!” Nick heard these words every day at school.
The focus shifted: he was no longer proud of what he had learned; he fixated on what he could never do. Hug your wife, take your child in your arms ...
One day, Nick asked his mother to take him to the bathroom. Driven by the thought "Why me?" the boy tried to drown himself.
"They didn't deserve this" - 10-year-old Nick realized that he could not do this to his parents, who love him very much. Suicide is not fair. Unfair to loved ones.
self-identification
Other people's words and actions cannot define your personality.
"What happened to you?!" - until Nick became world famous, this was the most frequently asked question to him.
Seeing a man without arms and legs, people do not hide the shock. Sidelong glances, whispers behind his back, grins - Nick answers everything with a smile. "It's all about the cigarettes," he says to the particularly impressionable. And he jokes about the children: “I just didn’t clean my room ...”.
Humor
Laugh as much as possible. In the life of any person there are days when troubles and hardships pour, as if from a cornucopia. Do not curse tests. Be grateful to life for giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. A sense of humor will help with this.
Nick is a big joker. There are no arms and legs - life "played" him, so why not laugh at her?
One day, Nick dressed up as a pilot and, with the permission of the airline, met passengers at the landing with the words: “Today we are testing new technology aircraft control ... and I am your pilot.
People who personally know Nick Vucic say that he has an excellent sense of humor. And this quality, as you know, excludes self-pity.
Talent
If you are deeply unhappy, then you are not living your life. Your talents are being misused.
Nick Vujicic has two higher education: accounting and financial planning. He is a successful motivational speaker and businessman. But his main talent is the ability to convince. Including through art.
Nick's first book is called "Life without limits: Inspiration for an absurdly good life" (translated into 30 languages, published in Russian in 2012). In 2009 he played leading role in the short film "The Butterfly Circus" (IMDb rating - 8.10). A story about finding the meaning of life.
Sport
It is impossible to argue with the fact that madness is genius: anyone who is willing to take risks, in the eyes of others, appears either as a madman or a genius.
“Crazy” is what many people think when they watch Nick looking for a wave while surfing or skydiving.
“I realized that physical dissimilarity limits me only to the extent that I limit myself,” Vuychich once admitted and did not limit himself in anything.
Nick plays football, tennis, swims well.
Motivation
Consider your attitude to the world as a remote control remote control. If you don't like the program you are watching, you simply grab the remote and switch the TV to another program. It’s the same with your attitude towards life: when you are unhappy with the result, change your approach, no matter what problem you are facing.
At the age of 19, Nick was offered to speak to students at the university where he studied (Griffith University). Nicholas agreed: he went out and spoke briefly about himself. Many people in the audience were crying, and one girl went up on stage and hugged him.
The young man understood that oratory was his vocation.
Nick Vuychich traveled to 45 countries, met with 7 presidents, spoke to thousands of spectators. Every day, he receives dozens of requests for interviews and invitations to speak. Why do people want to listen to it?
Because his performances are not reduced to the banal: “Are you in trouble? Yes, look at me - no arms, no legs, that's who has problems!
Nick understands that suffering cannot be compared, everyone has their own pain, and does not try to cheer up people, they say, “compared to me, everything is not so bad with you.” He just talks to them.
Embrace
I have no hands, and when you hug, you press right against the hearts. This is amazing!
Nick confesses that since he was born without arms, he never missed them. The only thing he lacks is a handshake. He cannot shake hands with anyone.
But he found a way. Nick hugs people... with his heart. Once Vuychich even arranged a hugging marathon - 1749 people per day, hugged by the heart.
Love
If you are open to love, love will come. If you surround your heart with a wall, there will be no love.
They met on April 11, 2010. The beautiful Kanae Miyahara has a boyfriend, Nick has no arms or legs. It's not love at first sight. It's just love. Real, deep.
On February 12, 2012, Nick and Kanae got married. Everything is as it should be: White dress, tuxedo and Honeymoon in Hawaii.
Family
Impossible to live full life if every decision you make is driven by fear. Fear will keep you from moving forward and prevent you from becoming who you want to be. But it's just a mood, a feeling. Fear is not real!
Tetra-Amelia syndrome is hereditary. Nick wasn't scared.
Hope
All good things in life start with hope.
Nick Vuychich is a man without arms and legs. Nick Vujicic is a man who believes in miracles. There is a pair of boots in his linen closet. So… just in case. After all, in life there is always room for something more.
He has money, success, a beautiful wife and children.
There are no arms to hug them. “But I will embrace them with all my heart! I am the most happy man on the ground!" - sincerely says the one who in childhood was cruelly called "stump" by those around him. Then Nick Vuychich did not even dare to dream of love or family ...
IN CHILDHOOD I WANTED TO DROWN
Nick Vujicic was born in Australia to ethnic Serbs. His birth caused shock to the medical staff and the father, who was present at the birth.
Nick's mother endured the pregnancy perfectly, and there was no doubt that the fetus was healthy. But when a child was born who had no arms or legs, only a body and a head, her husband almost fainted. Moreover, the newborn had an angelic beauty face, and this caused even greater horror of those who saw him ...
Parents were persuaded to leave the "freak" in the hospital. But they took Nick home. For six months they took him to the doctors, fearing that he was about to die. But examinations showed that in addition to a genetic disease that caused abnormal development in the womb, the boy is practically healthy. And live a long life. And if so, the parents decided, let it be ... ordinary!
His father taught him to swim, play football and skateboard, his mother figured out how to make life easier for the boy. Nick underwent surgery and a tiny process on the body, like a foot, was divided into two "fingers". "Ham", as Vuychich called him, he first learned to draw, then write and type on the keyboard.
They sewed clothes for me without buttons and zippers, which I adapted to put on and take off. When I was little, I managed to comb my hair: I clamp a comb between two books on a bookshelf and put my hair in order.
Nick went to a regular school, studied on an equal footing with everyone else. They mocked him, laughed at him. Despite the support of his parents, he felt worthless.
“I will never be able to work, I will not have a family, friends - why should I live?.. So I thought then,” says Vuychich. He remembers how once he wanted to commit suicide and tried to drown himself in the bathroom. But, imagining the grief of mom and dad, who loved him incredibly, he surfaced at the last moment.
I decided: if God gave me life, it means that I am needed for something. And I began to inspire other people to live.
He has traveled all over the world giving lectures. Talking about the fact that all difficulties are surmountable, Nick often shows a “trick”: he suddenly falls face down, and then, helping himself with his shoulder and head, manages to get up. “If I could,” he says, “then you can, even more so.”
“You FORGET ABOUT ITS FEATURES IN 10 MINUTES”
AT adolescence Nick dreamed of love, but the girls openly laughed at him. At the age of 19, having got into a Christian camp in America, the guy fell in love for the first time. The girl was not frightened by his appearance, but her father reared up, and Nick, not wanting to become a cause of discord in the family, retreated.
However, as a strongly religious person, Vuychich continued to pray to God to send him love. And seven years ago, at one of his lectures, he met the eyes of a girl, from whom he could no longer take his eyes off.
We immediately felt a strong attraction, - says Kanae Miyahara. - Yes, I noticed that he had no arms and legs, but only briefly. Similarly, I could note that the man I met was tall, thin, or tan.
Nick has such a magnetic attraction that you forget about his features in just 10 minutes. For the sake of Vuychich, the beauty - the daughter of a Japanese and a Mexican - left her boyfriend, whom she had met for more than a year.
Nick made an offer with fiction: he ordered eclairs, in which he hid the ring. He asked the girl to feed him. He bit off a piece, took the ring with his lips and put it on his beloved finger. How else can you do it if you don't have hands?
In the winter of 2012, Nick and Kanae got married. Everything is as it should be: white dress, tuxedos honeymoon in Hawaii. A year later, a son was born. In two, another one. Both are healthy, despite the fact that Nick's disease can be inherited. The twins, who will appear at the end of the year, will also be physically full-fledged people.
"WHAT'S WITH YOUR SEX?"
At a press conference one day, a woman asked a question that everyone had on their tongues, but no one dared to ask: “Nick, how did you even have children? I mean sex - you have no arms, no legs ... "
Vuychich hesitated, there was a pause. “Well… You don’t need legs at all for this. They say they only get in the way,” he replied in his joking manner.
He generally treats everything with humor. When passers-by stare at him in amazement on the street, Nick drives up to them in his wheelchair and “secretly” says: “All because he smoked a lot!” For the children, he prepared a different answer: “I didn’t obey my mother and didn’t clean the house.”
One day, Nick, in collusion with the airline, arranged a prank for passengers: he met them at the entrance to the plane in flight uniform with the words: “I am the commander of the ship, welcome on board.” With this joke, he wanted to show: if there is a desire, everything becomes possible.
My wife - that's who inspires me to exploits, - says Nick. - Together with her, we skydive, surf and lead active image life. When I feel bad, she motivates me: “You can do anything!” I love her madly and I want to say that people who have ailments should not give up on themselves - there will definitely be a person who will love you and make you believe in a miracle ...
Before we find out who Nick Vujicic is, let's philosophize a little. Every person has good and bad days. The latter sometimes flow into bad weeks, months, years, and all this comes to the point that a person is completely lost in the world: he does not understand his destiny, he goes astray life path. Plans and dreams are destroyed, and it seems that the reason for this is the injustice of the surrounding world.
A person blames the state, the authorities, the surrounding people, the unfortunate course of life circumstances for his failures, forgetting that everything is in his hands. Family, career, social status, respect from others - a person is able to influence anything, you just have to find inner strength in yourself and realize it.
This is exactly what a man without arms and legs, Nick Vuychich, once did. Now he, despite his external inferiority, lives a rich and happy life. Nick has everything that is needed for this: a wife and children, a favorite job and endless opportunities. By his example, Nick inspires hundreds of thousands of people around the world, showing that all life's obstacles are not a reason to give up. This is just a push to become even stronger.
Nick's childhood Is childhood the most beautiful time for everyone?
December 4, 1982 was supposed to be the happiest day in the family of Dushka and Boris Vuychich. Being in the Melbourne maternity hospital, a young nurse and a church pastor were waiting for the birth of their first child, who, according to all the doctors' forecasts, was to be born strong and healthy.
However, life decreed otherwise: a newborn boy came into this world with a rare disease - tetraamelia. Of all the limbs necessary for a person, nature left little Nick only an underdeveloped foot, the fingers on which have grown together.
For the first few months, the parents could not come to terms with the boy's illness: Nick's mother was in such shock that she refused to breastfeed the newborn. But gradually Dushka and Boris were able to overcome themselves and began to become attached to their special son. They were able to love him for who he is, and decided to just move on.
In order not to leave little Nick without a single opportunity to perform any actions on his own, it was decided to perform an operation to separate the fingers on his only lower limb. So Nick got his opportunity to learn how to write, move around, type at a decent speed on the keyboard, and even play golf.
The boy grew up in a pious family, where not a single day passed without prayers. Nick asked God for something that he could not give him: full-fledged upper and lower limbs. External flaws oppressed Vujicic. He studied at the most ordinary school, where the children teased him because he was not like everyone else. Realizing his own inferiority, the boy suffered greatly, experienced incredible stress, which flowed into depression.
When he - a man who in the future will be imitated by millions of healthy people - was ten years old, he decided to take his own life. Only one thing saved Nick - the realization that he would hurt his family. He knew how much they loved him and what a blow his death would be to them.
Then Nick found the courage to give up his true terrible step and start new life. A life in which no one is perfect, but everyone has limitless possibilities and the strength to overcome any difficulties - the power of love.
Start of charitable activities
One day Nick's mother told him interesting story about a person with disabilities who was able to inspire other people to live. This story, which was actually an article from some magazine, was very interested in the boy, and for the first time he thought about his place in this world.
When Nick had already gradually begun to adapt to his position as an “unusual” child, he, imperceptibly for himself, began to engage in the work of his life - charity. The boy was fourteen years old when he began working on the council of his school, which dealt with issues of helping the needy and other charitable activities.
After graduating from school, Vuychich entered the university, where he received two higher educations without much difficulty - the first accounting and the second in finance. When the future famous speaker turned 19, he was invited to Griffith University to give a speech to Australian students. For a performance young man 7 minutes were allotted, but after 3 minutes, tears froze in the eyes of the entire audience.
One of the students approached Nick and started crying on his shoulder, claiming that he changed her life with his speech. Then it immediately became clear that to motivate others, make them believe in themselves and inspire hope in the souls of people - this is his true purpose.
That is why, in 1999, Nick came up with the idea to found his own religious non-profit charitable organization, which he did, naming his offspring Life Without Limbs. This is how Vujicic began his career as a motivational speaker.
Thanks to the unusual appearance and unique ability penetrating people's souls with his own words, a man without arms and legs quickly gained popularity throughout Australia. In 2005, he received the Australian of the Year award. But his rise to fame did not stop there. With the help of the Internet, the whole world watched Vuychich, and, having become the owner of the motivational company "Position determines the goal" ("Attitude Is Altitude"), Nick began to visit other countries with his lectures. He delivered his speeches in more than sixty states, including Russia.
For the first time, the famous speaker visited the capital cities of Russia in March 2015. It was then that the dream of many Russians came true: to see this extraordinary person with their own eyes and attend his lecture. The speaker was also invited to one of the well-known talk shows on one of the federal channels.
People came there to meet Nick with their problems: someone could not overcome the evil addiction in the form of alcoholism, someone did not have enough strength to stop being a prisoner own body and lose weight, someone needs moral support to raise sick children. They were able to talk to Vujicic, hug him and find hope for the best.
Of course, not everyone who wanted to had the opportunity to talk face-to-face with the famous lecturer, the majority of Russians followed what was happening through the TV screens. But even this had a huge effect on the inhabitants of a large country, and they began to look forward to Nick's next visit.
The preacher did not take long to arrive with a new performance in 2016. Now people came with gratitude for what Nick had done for them.
On the this moment, Vuychich has already visited Moscow and St. Petersburg several times. He managed to visit other cities of Russia, such as Novosibirsk, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.
It is obvious that the Russians fell in love with Nick very much and are always happy to expect him to visit.
Sermons and motivational speeches are not the only way to influence the masses, and Nick Vujicic knows this firsthand. After all, he is the author of world bestsellers among motivational literature. To date, he has published five books, each of which has been translated into thousands of foreign languages.
The most famous book– “Life without Borders” – was published in 2010 and is still a desktop for many. In it, Nick voices his basic life attitudes and invites people to abandon all the restrictions that they create for themselves.
Also, the young man starred in a film called "The Butterfly Circus." This is a short film by American director Joshua Weigel and tells how the protagonist Will (who is played by Nick) gains confidence in himself. The film received 8 wins at various film festivals, and Vujicic himself even won the Best Actor award at the Method fest 2010 Independent Film Festival.
Crazy popularity and career success, alas, is not always all that a person needs for happiness. Nick always knew this and secretly dreamed of meeting the one who would love him, despite all the shortcomings. Vujicic believed in love, and it came to him. Came in the form of a charming girl Kanae Miyahara.
Young people immediately felt sympathy, which eventually ended in a beautiful wedding. The couple are now parents of four children. On February 12, 2012, their first child, Kiyoshi James Vuychich, was born, in 2015, the second son, Dejan, was born, and more recently, on December 20, 2017, twin sisters Olivia and Ellie joined the ranks of Vuychich. All the children of Kanae and Nika are absolutely healthy and have not inherited their father's diseases.
Now Vujicic is actively engaged in raising children, while continuing his career as a motivational speaker. He also continues to work for his charity and the Attitude Is Altitude project. Nick actively maintains their websites and pages in social networks to always stay in touch with your fans.
Secrets of Motivation by Nick Vuychich
The biggest secret is that there is no secret. He described Nick's whole worldview in his books, he shared his thoughts with the world so that any of us could use them and become happier.
He says, “Consider your attitude to the world as a remote control. If you don't like the program you are watching, you simply grab the remote and switch the TV to another program. It’s the same with the attitude to life: when you are unhappy with the result, change the approach, no matter what problem you are facing” (from the book “Life without limits”).
So what does the story of this extraordinary man teach us?
Nick Vuychich motivates people not just with his words - he does it by example. Looking at a person with such a serious illness, who, in spite of everything, lives on her own full life, it is impossible to keep blaming "an unjust world" for your failures.
Life sends every person millions of opportunities. It all depends on you and your attitude towards life. Love, be kinder, be inspired by people like Nick Vuychich. And most importantly, be inspired by yourself and your actions.
Nick Vuychich is a millionaire without arms and legs, whose story will shock everyone to the core. He showed by his example that one can be happy, regardless of life situations. Every day of his is an example of faith that really works miracles. Nick teaches how to find faith and hope in your heart. And most importantly, it proves that you can live a happy full life if you perform a feat every day. This story is about strong man modernity.
Birth
One of the best ways to let go of past pain is to replace it with gratitude.
December 4, 1982. Dushka Vujicic is in labor. Here is the birth of the firstborn. Husband, Boris Vuychich, is present at the birth.
The shoulder showed up. Boris turned pale and left the birth room. After a while, a doctor came up to him.
"Doctor, is my son missing an arm?" Boris asked. "Not. Your son has neither arms nor legs,” the doctor replied.
Nicholas's parents (so they called the newborn) did not know anything about the Tetra-Amelia syndrome. They didn't know how to handle a baby without arms and legs. The mother did not put her son to her breast for 4 months.
Gradually, Nick's parents got used to¸ accepting and loving their son for who he is.
Childhood
Failure is the path to excellence.
Leg. So Nick called the only limb on his body. Likeness of a foot with two fused toes, subsequently separated surgically.
But Nick thinks that his "leg" is not so bad. He learned to write, print (43 words per minute), drive an electric wheelchair, push off on a skateboard.
Not everything worked right away. But, when the time came, Nick went to a regular school, along with healthy peers.
Despair
When you feel like betraying your dream, push yourself to work one more day, one more week, one more month, one more year. You'll be amazed at what happens if you don't give up.
“You can’t do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You are nobody!” Nick heard these words every day at school.
The focus shifted: he was no longer proud of what he had learned; he fixated on what he could never do. Hug your wife, take your child in your arms ...
One day, Nick asked his mother to take him to the bathroom. Driven by the thought "Why me?" the boy tried to drown himself.
"They didn't deserve this" - 10-year-old Nick realized that he could not do this to his parents, who love him very much. Suicide is not fair. Unfair to loved ones.
self-identification
Other people's words and actions cannot define your personality.
"What happened to you?!" - until Nick became world famous, this was the most frequently asked question to him.
Seeing a man without arms and legs, people do not hide the shock. Sidelong glances, whispers behind his back, grins - Nick answers everything with a smile. "It's all about the cigarettes," he says to the particularly impressionable. And he jokes about the children: “I just didn’t clean my room ...”.
Humor
Laugh as much as possible. In the life of any person there are days when troubles and hardships pour, as if from a cornucopia. Do not curse tests. Be grateful to life for giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. A sense of humor will help with this.
Nick is a big joker. There are no arms and legs - life "played" him, so why not laugh at her?
Once, Nick dressed up as a pilot and, with the permission of the airline, met passengers at the landing with the words: “Today we are testing a new aircraft control technology ... and I am your pilot.”
People who personally know Nick Vucic say that he has an excellent sense of humor. And this quality, as you know, excludes self-pity.
Talent
If you are deeply unhappy, then you are not living your life. Your talents are being misused.
Nick Vuychich has two higher educations: accounting and financial planning. He is a successful motivational speaker and businessman. But his main talent is the ability to convince. Including through art.
Nick's first book is called Life Without Borders: The Path to an Amazingly Happy Life (translated into 30 languages, published in Russian in 2012). In 2009, he starred in the short film Butterfly Circus (IMDb rating 8.10). A story about finding the meaning of life.
Sport
It is impossible to argue with the fact that madness is genius: anyone who is willing to take risks, in the eyes of others, appears either as a madman or a genius.
“Crazy” is what many people think when they watch Nick looking for a wave while surfing or skydiving.
“I realized that physical dissimilarity limits me only to the extent that I limit myself,” Vuychich once admitted and did not limit himself in anything.
Nick plays football, tennis, swims well.
Motivation
Think of your attitude to the world as a remote control. If you don't like the program you are watching, you simply grab the remote and switch the TV to another program. It’s the same with your attitude towards life: when you are unhappy with the result, change your approach, no matter what problem you are facing.
At the age of 19, Nick was offered to speak to students at the university where he studied (Griffith University). Nicholas agreed: he went out and spoke briefly about himself. Many people in the audience were crying, and one girl went up on stage and hugged him.
The young man understood that oratory was his vocation.
Nick Vuychich traveled to 45 countries, met with 7 presidents, spoke to thousands of spectators. Every day, he receives dozens of requests for interviews and invitations to speak. Why do people want to listen to it?
Because his performances are not reduced to the banal: “Are you in trouble? Yes, look at me - no arms, no legs, that's who has problems!
Nick understands that suffering cannot be compared, everyone has their own pain, and does not try to cheer up people, they say, “compared to me, everything is not so bad with you.” He just talks to them.
Embrace
I have no hands, and when you hug, you press right against the hearts. This is amazing!
Nick confesses that since he was born without arms, he never missed them. The only thing he lacks is a handshake. He cannot shake hands with anyone.
But he found a way. Nick hugs people... with his heart. Once Vuychich even arranged a hugging marathon - 1749 people per day, hugged by the heart.
Love
If you are open to love, love will come. If you surround your heart with a wall, there will be no love.
They met on April 11, 2010. The beautiful Kanae Miyahara has a boyfriend, Nick has no arms or legs. It's not love at first sight. It's just love. Real, deep.
On February 12, 2012, Nick and Kanae got married. Everything is as it should be: a white dress, a tuxedo and a honeymoon in Hawaii.
Family
It is impossible to live life to the fullest if every decision you make is driven by fear. Fear will keep you from moving forward and prevent you from becoming who you want to be. But it's just a mood, a feeling. Fear is not real!
Tetra-Amelia syndrome is hereditary. Nick wasn't scared.
A August 7 Kanae Vujicic gave her husband a son weighing 3.023 kg. The baby was given the name Dejan Levi - and he is absolutely healthy.
Hope
All good things in life start with hope.
Nick Vuychich is a man without arms and legs. Nick Vujicic is a man who believes in miracles. There is a pair of boots in his linen closet. So… just in case. After all, in life there is always room for something more.
There are a lot of publications about Nick Vuychich on the net (and a lot of videos too), he is generally a public figure. But for a long time I myself wanted to write about him at home, because he is really a great fellow, but all my hands did not reach. And then the news arrived that on February 12 he got married, that's the reason.
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Disabled Preacher Nick Vujicic Marries
Taken from http://madwind.livejournal.com/2009246.html
There have been many stories about Nick Vuychich, a guy without legs and arms, who once wanted to commit suicide, and then began to preach the gospel all over the world. (Let's be clear right away: Nick is a Christian, a Protestant, Jesus is the center of his life. Wikipedia says: Nick Vuychich (December 4, 1982, Brisbane, Australia) is a Christian preacher, was born into a family of Serbian immigrants, his father is a pastor, his mother is a nurse).
Since 1999, Nick began to speak to his church group and soon opened non-profit organization"Life without limbs" (Eng. Life without Limbs). He usually performs in churches, but also in schools, universities, army units. He motivates people, inspires by his example and, of course, talks about Jesus. Before the start of the performance, the assistant usually brings Nick to the stage and helps him get on some kind of dais so that he can be seen. Then Nick tells episodes from his everyday life. About people still staring at him on the streets. About the fact that when the children run up and ask: “What happened to you ?!”, and he told them hoarse voice replies: "It's all because of the cigarettes!"))
After that, he says: "And to be honest, sometimes you can fall like this." Nick falls face down on the table he was standing on. And he continues: “It happens in life that you fall, and it seems that you have no strength to rise. You wonder then if you have any hope... I have neither arms nor legs! It seems that if I try to rise at least a hundred times, I will not succeed. But after another defeat, I do not leave hope. I will try again and again. I want you to know that failure is not the end. What matters is how you finish. Are you going to finish strong? Then you will find the strength to rise up in yourself – in this way.” He leans on his forehead, then helps himself with his shoulders and gets up...
Nick talks about gratitude to God. "I could not find anything else that would give me peace. Through the word of God, I learned the truth about the purpose of my life - about who I am, why I live, and where I will go when I die. Without faith, nothing made sense.. Sometimes they say to me: "No, no! I can't imagine myself without arms and legs!" But comparing suffering is impossible and unnecessary.What can I say to someone whose loved one is dying of cancer or whose parents are divorced?I can't understand their pain.There is a lot of pain in this life, so there must be absolute truth, the absolute Hope that is above all circumstances. My hope is in heaven. If you associate your happiness with temporary things, it will be temporary."
Between business trips, Nick fishes, plays golf and surfs: "Usually, parents of disabled children get divorced. My parents are not divorced. Do you think they were scared? Yes. Do you think they trusted God? Yes. I guess now they see fruits of my labors? Absolutely right ... How many people would believe if they showed me on TV and said: "This guy prayed to the Lord and he got arms and legs"? But when people see me for who I am, they wondering: “How can you smile?” For them, this is a visible miracle. I need my trials so that I understand how much I depend on God. Other people need my testimony that "the power of God is made perfect in weakness." They look into the eyes of a man without arms and legs and see in them peace, joy - that is what everyone aspires to."
Nick recently got married. In August, the engagement was announced, the wedding took place the other day.
On February 12, 2012, Nick Vujicic married Kanae Miahara.
He once said: “I thought: what kind of husband can I become if I can’t even hold my wife’s hand? But it’s a lie to think that you are not good enough. It’s a lie to think that you are worth nothing. How many people believe that they are worthless! .. Yes, I have no hands to hold my wife by the hand, but when the time comes and God gives me a wife, I will be able to hold her with my heart. And so it turned out.
“There are people who give up because they don’t have the strength to look around the corner. And if you don’t look around the corner, you will never know what God has in store for you there,” says Nick. “Have you trusted God with all your heart? He knows how much it hurts... But God has a plan for your life! He says in the Bible: "Even if you go through fire, don't be afraid: I'm with you!". If only you could receive the gift of Jesus! He - the greatest gift we can receive He is love He is infinite He is love that manifests itself in everything You can have all the money in the world, anything you want, but you will take nothing with you to the grave except your own souls."
"Peace with God gives strength to live - day by day"
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Nick Vuychich. No arms, no legs - no fuss
It was their long-awaited firstborn. The father was in labor. He saw the baby's shoulder - what is it? No hand. Boris Vuychich realized that he had to leave the room at once so that his wife would not have time to notice how his face had changed. He couldn't believe what he saw.
When the doctor came to him, he began to speak:
"My son! Doesn't he have a hand?
The doctor replied:
"No... Your son has no arms or legs."
The doctors refused to show the baby to the mother. The nurses were crying.
Why?
Nicolas Vuychich was born in Melbourne, Australia, in a family of Serbian emigrants. Mother is a nurse. Father is a pastor. The whole parish lamented: “Why did the Lord allow this?” The pregnancy proceeded normally, with heredity everything is in order.
At first, the mother could not bring herself to take her son in her arms, she could not breastfeed him. “I had no idea how I would take the child home, what to do with him, how to take care of him,” recalls Duska Vujvic. I didn't know who to contact with my questions. Even the doctors were confused. Only after four months I began to recover. My husband and I began to solve problems without looking far ahead. One by one."
Nick has a semblance of a foot instead of a left leg. Thanks to this, the boy learned to walk, swim, skateboard, play on the computer and write. Parents made sure that their son was taken to a regular school. Nick became the first child with a disability in a regular Australian school.
“It meant that the teachers surrounded me with too much attention,” recalls Nick. - On the other hand, although I had two friends, most often I heard from my peers: “Nick, go away!”, “Nick, you can’t do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You are nobody !"
drown myself
Every evening, Nick prayed to God and asked him: "God, give me arms and legs!" He cried and hoped that when he wakes up in the morning, arms and legs will already appear. Mom and dad bought him electronic hands. But they were too heavy, and the boy could not use them.
On Sundays he went to church school. They taught that the Lord loves everyone. Nick did not understand how this could be - why then God did not give him what everyone has. Sometimes adults would come up and say: “Nick, everything will be fine with you!” But he did not believe them - no one could explain to him why he was like that, and no one could help him, not even God. At the age of eight, Nicholas decided to drown himself in the bath. He asked his mother to take him there.
“I turned my face into the water, but it was very difficult to resist. Nothing worked. During this time, I presented a picture of my funeral - here are my dad and mom ... And then I realized that I could not kill myself. All I saw from my parents was love for me.”
change heart
Nick did not try to commit suicide anymore, but he kept thinking - why should he live.
He won't be able to work, he won't be able to take his bride by the hand, he won't be able to take his child in his arms when he cries. One day, my mother read an article to Nick about a seriously ill person who inspired others to live.
Mom said, “Nick, God needs you. I do not know how. I do not know when. But you can serve Him."
At the age of fifteen, Nick opened the Gospel and read the parable of the blind man. The disciples asked Christ why this man was blind. Christ answered: "So that the works of God may appear on it." Nick says that at that moment he stopped being angry with God.
“Then I realized, I am not just a person without arms and legs. I am a creation of God. God knows what and why He does. It doesn't matter what people think, says Nick now. God didn't answer my prayers. It means that He wants to change my heart more than the circumstances of my life. Probably, even if I suddenly had arms and legs, it would not calm me down like that. Hands and feet by themselves.
At nineteen, Nick studied financial planning at university. Once he was asked to speak to students. Seven minutes were allotted for the speech. Three minutes later, the girls in the hall were crying. One of them could not stop sobbing, she raised her hand and asked: “Can I go up to the stage and hug you?”. The girl went up to Nick and began to cry on his shoulder. She said, “No one has ever told me that they love me, no one has ever told me that I am beautiful the way I am. My life has changed today."
Nick came home and announced to his parents that he knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. The first thing my father asked was: “Are you thinking of graduating from university?” Then other questions arose:
Will you ride alone?
Don't know.
What will you talk about?
Don't know.
Who will listen to you?
Don't know.
One hundred attempts to rise
Ten months a year he is on the road, two months at home. He traveled to more than two dozen countries, he was heard by more than three million people - in schools, nursing homes, prisons. It happens that Nick speaks in stadiums with thousands of people. He performs about 250 times a year. Nick receives about three hundred offers for new performances a week. He became a professional speaker.
Before the start of the performance, the assistant brings Nick onto the stage and helps him get on some kind of platform so that he can be seen. Then Nick tells episodes from his everyday life. About people still staring at him on the streets. About when kids run up and ask, “What happened to you?!” He replies in a hoarse voice, "All because of the cigarettes!"
And to those who are younger, he says: “I didn’t clean my room.” What he has in place of his legs, he calls the "ham". Nick reveals that his dog loves to bite him. And then he begins to beat off a fashionable rhythm with a ham.
After that, he says: "And to be honest, sometimes you can fall like this." Nick falls face down on the table he was standing on.
And continues:
“It happens in life that you fall, and it seems that you have no strength to rise. You wonder then if you have any hope... I have neither arms nor legs! It seems that if I try to rise at least a hundred times, I will not succeed. But after another defeat, I do not leave hope. I will try again and again. I want you to know that failure is not the end. What matters is how you finish. Are you going to finish strong? Then you will find the strength in yourself to rise - that's the way."
He leans on his forehead, then helps himself with his shoulders and stands up.
The women in the hall begin to cry.
And Nick starts talking about gratitude to God.
I don't save anyone
- People are touched, consoled, because they see that it is harder for someone than for them?
Sometimes they say to me: “No, no! I can't imagine myself without arms and legs!" But it is impossible to compare suffering, and it is not necessary. What can I say to someone whose loved one is dying of cancer or whose parents are divorced? I don't understand their pain.
One day a twenty-year-old woman approached me. She was kidnapped when she was ten years old, made into a slave and subjected to violence. During this time, she had two children, one of them died. Now she has AIDS. Her parents don't want to talk to her. What can she hope for? She said that if she did not believe in God, she would commit suicide. Now she talks about her faith with other AIDS patients so they can hear her.
Last year I met people who had a son with no arms and no legs. The doctors said, “He will be a plant for the rest of his life. He won’t be able to walk, he won’t be able to study, he won’t be able to do anything.” And suddenly they found out about me and met me personally - another such person. And they had hope. It is important for everyone to know that he is not alone and that he is loved.
- Why did you believe in God?
I couldn't find anything else that would give me peace. Through the word of God, I learned the truth about the purpose of my life—who I am, why I live, and where I will go when I die. Without faith, nothing made sense.
There is a lot of pain in this life, so there must be absolute Truth, absolute Hope, which is above all circumstances. My hope is in heaven. If you associate your happiness with temporary things, it will be temporary.
I can tell many times when teenagers came up to me and said, “Today I looked in the mirror with a knife in my hand. It was supposed to be the last day of my life. You saved me".
A woman came up to me one day and said, “Today is my daughter's second birthday. Two years ago she listened to you and you saved her life." But I can't save myself! Only God can. What I have is not Nick's accomplishments. If not for God, I would not be here with you and would not exist in the world. I couldn't handle my trials on my own. And I thank God that my example inspires people.
- What can inspire you besides faith and family?
The smile of a friend.
Once I was informed that a terminally ill guy wanted to see me. He was eighteen years old. He was already very weak and could not move at all. I entered his room for the first time. And he smiled. It was a precious smile. I told him that I don't know how I would feel in his place, that he is my hero.
We saw each other a few more times. I asked him once: "What would you like to say to all people?" He said, "What do you mean?" I replied: “Now, if there was a camera here. And every person in the world could see you. What would you say?
He asked for time to think. Last time we talked on the phone, he was already so weak that I could not hear his voice on the phone. We spoke through his father. This guy said, “I know what I would say to all people. Try to be a milestone in someone's life story. Do something. Something to remember you."
Hug without hands
Previously, Nick fought for independence in every little thing. Now, due to the busy schedule, I began to trust more cases to the patronage worker, who helps to dress, move around and in other routine matters. Nick's childhood fears did not come true. He recently got engaged, is going to get married, and now he believes that he does not need hands to hold the heart of the bride. He no longer worries about how he will communicate with his children. The case helped. An unfamiliar two-year-old girl approached him. She saw that Nick had no hands. Then the girl put her hands behind her back and put her head on his shoulder.
Nick can't shake hands with anyone - he hugs people. And even set a world record. A guy with no arms hugged 1,749 people in an hour. He wrote a book about his life, typing 43 words per minute on a computer. Between business trips, he fishes, plays golf and surfs.
“I don’t always get up in the morning with a smile on my face. Sometimes my back hurts, - says Nick, - But, because in my principles there are great power I keep taking small steps forward, baby steps. Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act, relying not on one's own strength, but on the help of God.
Usually parents of children with disabilities get divorced. My parents are not divorced. Do you think they were scared? Yes. Do you think they trusted God? Yes. Do you think they are now seeing the fruits of their labors? Quite right.
How many people would believe if they showed me on TV and said: “This guy prayed to the Lord and he got arms and legs”? But when people see me for who I am, they are perplexed: “How can you smile?” For them, this is a visible miracle. I need my trials so that I understand how dependent on God. Other people need my testimony that "the power of God is made perfect in weakness." They look into the eyes of a man without arms and legs and see in them peace, joy - something that everyone aspires to.
Nick Vujicic is a great motivator and public speaker and speaks a lot. Watch his performances. They amaze, inspire and move to action.
Imagine that you were born without arms. There are no hands, it is impossible to hug anyone, there are no hands to feel the touch, or to take someone's hand. What about being born without legs? Not being able to dance, walk, run, or even just stand on two legs. Now combine these two scenarios together... No arms and no legs. What would you do then? How would this affect your life?
Meet Nick. He was born in 1982 in Melbourne. Without any medical explanations, or warnings, Nick Vuychich came into this world without arms and legs. His mother's pregnancy was going well and there was no heredity to expect such a condition. Imagine how shocked his parents were when they saw their first child, this boy, and found that he was what the world considers imperfect and abnormal. A son without limbs was not what Nurse Duska Vujicic and Pastor Boris Vujicic expected. How will their son live a normal, happy life? What will he be able to do or become while living with what the world considers to be such a severe disability? Few thought that this beautiful, limbless child would one day be the one to inspire and motivate people of all walks of life, touching the lives of people from all corners of the world.
As a child, Nick faced more than the usual difficulties of school and adolescence, such as bullying. (translator's note: bullying is physical and / or psychological terror against a child by a group of classmates) or self-respect. He also suffered from depression and loneliness when he asked why he was different from all the children around him; why he turned out to be the one who was born without arms and legs. He often wondered what the purpose of his life was, or whether there was any purpose at all.
After a large number disappointments and the feeling that he is the only one a strange man at school, when Nick was seven years old, he tried out specially designed electronic hands, in the hope that he would be at least a little like other children. After a short trial period, Nick realized that even with his arms, he still didn't look like his classmates, and besides, in practice, they were too heavy for Nick to control, greatly affecting his mobility.
As Nick grew up, he learned to deal with his shortcomings and began to do more and more things himself. He adapted to his situation and found ways to perform many of the activities that people can do using only their limbs, such as brushing their teeth, combing their hair, typing, swimming, exercising, and more. Over time, Nick began to take advantage of his situation and achieve great things. In the seventh grade, Nick was chosen as the school's head boy and worked with the student council on projects to raise money for local charities and for disabled relief companies.
According to Nick, the victory in his struggle along the entire route of his journey, as well as the strength and passion he had for life, can be attributed to his faith, his family, his friends and many people he met in his life, and who supported him all the time.
After school, Nick continued his studies and received two higher educations. One as an accountant, the second - in the field financial planning. By the age of 19, Nick began to fulfill his dream: to be able to inspire other people, give them hope through his motivational speeches and telling his story. "I have found the purpose of my existence, as well as the reason for my circumstances ... There is a reason why you are on fire." Nick truly believes that there is a reason why we face struggles in our lives and that our attitude towards those struggles is the single most effective factor in overcoming them.
In 2005, Nick received the Young Australian of the Year nomination. This award, which is very prestigious in Australia, recognizes young people for their excellence and service to their local community and their nation, as well as their individual achievements. This award is given only to truly inspiring people.
Today, at age 25, this limbless guy has achieved more than most people twice his age. Nick recently moved from Brisbon, Australia to California, USA, where he is president of the charity. In addition, he has his own motivational speaking company called "Attitude Is Altitude". Since his first motivational talk at the age of 19, Nick has traveled the world, telling his story to millions of people, speaking to different groups such as: students, teachers, youth, businessmen, entrepreneurs, church gatherings of all sizes. He also told his story and gave interviews to various TV companies around the world. Nick's performances go far beyond pure motivation. He had and still has the opportunity to communicate with several leaders, including, for example, the Vice President of Kenya. This year, Nick plans to perform in more than 20 countries around the world.
"People say to me, 'How can you smile?'" says Nick. They then realize that "there must be something more than what is seen at a glance if a guy with no arms and legs lives a more fulfilling life than I".
Nick talks to his audience about the importance of having your own vision and dreaming big. Using your own experience around the world as an example, he challenges others to consider their perspectives and look beyond their circumstances. He shares his point of view on how to stop looking at obstacles as a problem and instead start seeing them as an opportunity for growth, how to influence others, etc. It emphasizes the importance of our attitude and that it is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal; and also shows how the choices we make can have a profound effect on our lives and the lives of those around us.
Through his life, Nick shows that the main key to achieving our biggest dreams is consistency and the ability to use failure as an experience, as well as the ability to not let the guilt and fear of failure paralyze us.
How does Vujicic feel about his disability now? He accepted it, took advantage of it, and very often he laughs at his circumstances when he shows many of his "tricks". He meets challenges with a special sense of humor; his perseverance and faith always inspires everyone around him to learn their perspective, to create and define their vision. Using these new definitions, he challenges every person he meets so that they can change their lives so that they can begin to fulfill their biggest dreams. With his extraordinary ability to connect with people from all walks of life and his incredible sense of humor that captivates children, teens and adults alike, Nick is truly an inspiring and motivating speaker.
