The story of a man without arms and legs. Nick Vujicic
It looks like a myth, a beautiful, instructive, but unreal story. Think about it, a boy born without legs and arms is a world famous motivational speaker by the age of 31, 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?
Happens. If you perform a small feat every day. We will tell you about the 12 labors Nick Vujicic, thanks to which one can read in his sincere smile: “I am happy.”
Birth
One of the best ways To get rid of the pain of the past is to replace it with gratitude.
December 4, 1982. Duska Vujicic is giving birth. The first child is about to be born. The husband, Boris Vujicic, is present at the birth.
A shoulder appeared. Boris turned pale and left the family room. After some time, a doctor approached him.
“Doctor, my son doesn’t have an arm?” – asked Boris. "No. Your son has neither arms nor legs,” the doctor answered.
Nicholas's parents (as the newborn was named) knew nothing about 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 mastery.
Ham. That's what Nick nicknamed the only limb on his body. A resemblance to a foot with two fused toes, subsequently separated surgically.
But Nick thinks that his “ham” is not so bad. He learned to use it to write, type (43 words per minute), drive an electric wheelchair, and push off on a skateboard.
Not everything worked out right away. But when the time came, Nick went to a regular school, along with his healthy peers.
Despair
When you feel like giving up on your dream, force yourself to work one more day, one more week, one more month, and one more year. You will be amazed at what will happen if you don't give up.
“You don’t know how to do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You’re nobody!” – Nick heard these words every day at school.
The focus shifted: he was no longer proud of what he had learned; he's fixated on something he can never do. Hug your wife, hold your child...
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 loved him very much. Suicide is dishonest. Unfair towards 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 cannot hide their shock. Sidelong glances, whispers behind his back, grins - Nick responds to everything with a smile. “It’s all because of cigarettes,” he says to those who are especially impressionable. And he makes fun of the children: “I just didn’t clean my room...”.
Humor
Laugh as much as possible. There are days in the life of any person when troubles and hardships pour in as if from a cornucopia. Don't curse trials. 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 or legs - life has played a trick on him, so why not laugh at it?
One day, Nick dressed up as a pilot and, with the permission of the airline, greeted passengers at the gate with the words: “Today we are experiencing new technology control the plane... and I am your pilot."
People who personally know Nick Vucic say that he has an excellent sense of humor. And this quality, as we 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 persuade. 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 main role 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 appears in the eyes of others as either a madman or a genius.
“Crazy” - many people think when they watch Nick looking for a wave while surfing or jumping with a parachute.
“I realized that physical dissimilarity limits me only to the extent that I limit myself,” Vujicic once admitted and did not limit himself in anything.
Nick plays football, tennis, and swims well.
Motivation
Think of your attitude towards the world as a remote control remote control. If you don't like the program you're watching, you simply grab the remote control and switch the TV to another program. It's the same with your attitude to life: when you're unhappy with the result, change your approach, no matter what problem you're facing.
At the age of 19, Nick was asked to speak to students at the university where he studied (Griffith University). Nicholas agreed: he came out and briefly told about himself. Many people in the audience cried, and one girl got up on stage and hugged him.
The young man understood that oratory was his calling.
Nick Vujicic traveled to 45 countries, met with 7 presidents, and spoke in front of thousands of spectators. Every day he receives dozens of requests for interviews and invitations to give a speech. Why do people want to listen to him?
Because his speeches do not boil down to the banal: “Are you having problems? 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 people up, saying, “compared to me, everything is not so bad for you.” He just talks to them.
Embrace
I don’t have hands, and when you hug, you press right into their hearts. It's amazing!
Nick admits 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 out. Nick hugs people... with his heart. Once Vujicic even organized a marathon of hugs - 1,749 people hugged with their hearts per day.
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
It's impossible to live life to the fullest, if your every decision is determined by fear. Fear will keep you from moving forward and prevent you from becoming what you want. But this is just a mood, a feeling. Fear is not real!
Tetra-Amelia syndrome is hereditary. Nick wasn't afraid.
Hope
Everything good in life begins with hope.
Nick Vujicic 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.
It was theirs 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 immediately 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 out to him, he began to say:
"My son! Doesn't he have a hand?
The doctor replied:
“No... Your son has neither arms nor legs.”
Doctors refused to show the baby to the mother. The nurses were crying.
Why?
Nicholas Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia, into a family of Serbian emigrants. Mother is a nurse. Father is a pastor. The whole parish lamented: “Why did the Lord allow this to happen?” The pregnancy proceeded normally, everything was fine with heredity.
At first, the mother could not bring herself to take her son in her arms and 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 Vujicic. – I didn’t know who to contact with my questions. Even the doctors were at a loss. Only after four months did I begin to come to my senses. My husband and I began to solve problems without looking too far ahead. One after another."
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. The parents managed to get their son into a regular school. Nick became the first disabled child in a regular Australian school.
“This meant that teachers were paying too much attention to me,” Nick recalls. - On the other hand, although I had two friends, most often I heard from my peers: “Nick, go away!”, “Nick, you don’t know how to do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You’re nobody.” !
Drown yourself
Every evening Nick prayed to God and asked him: “God, give me arms and legs!” He cried and hoped that when he woke up in the morning, arms and legs would already appear. Mom and dad bought him electronic hands. But they were too heavy, and the boy was never able to use them.
On Sundays he went to church school. They taught there that the Lord loves everyone. Nick didn’t understand how this could be - why then God didn’t give him what everyone else had. Sometimes adults came up and said: “Nick, everything will be fine!” But he didn’t believe them - no one could explain to him why he was like this, and no one could help him, not even God. At the age of eight, Nicholas decided to drown himself in the bathtub. He asked his mother to take him there.
“I turned my face into the water, but it was very difficult to hold on. Nothing worked. During this time, I imagined a picture of my funeral - my dad and mom were standing there... And then I realized that I couldn’t kill myself. All I saw from my parents was love for me.”
Change your heart
Nick never tried to commit suicide again, but he kept thinking why he should live.
He won't be able to work, he won't be able to hold his fiancée's hand, he won't be able to hold his child when he cries. One day, Nick’s mother read an article about a seriously ill man 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 disciples asked Christ why this man was blind. Christ answered: “So that the works of God may be revealed in him.” Nick says that at that moment he stopped being angry at God.
“Then I realized that I am not just a man without arms and legs. I am God's creation. God knows what He is doing and why. “It doesn’t matter what people think,” Nick says now. – God did not answer my prayers. This 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 so much. Arms and legs on their own.”
At nineteen, Nick studied financial planning at university. One day he was asked to speak to students. Seven minutes were allotted for the speech. Within three minutes the girls in the hall were crying. One of them could not stop sobbing, she raised her hand and asked: “Can I come up on stage and hug you?” The girl approached Nick and began to cry on his shoulder. She said: “No one ever told me they loved me, no one ever told me I was beautiful just the way I am. My life 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 finishing university?” Then other questions arose:
-Are you going to travel alone?
- And with whom?
- Don't know.
-What are you going to talk about?
- Don't know.
– Who will listen to you?
- Don't know.
A hundred attempts to get up
Ten months a year he is on the road, two months at home. He traveled to more than two dozen countries, more than three million people heard him - in schools and prisons. It happens that Nick speaks in stadiums with thousands of seats. 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, an assistant carries Nick onto the stage and helps him sit on some raised platform so that he can be seen. Then Nick tells episodes from his everyday life. About how people still stare at him on the streets. About the fact that when children run up and ask: “What happened to you?!” He in a hoarse voice replies: “It’s all because of cigarettes!”
And to those who are younger, he says: “I didn’t clean my room.” He calls what is in place of his legs a “ham.” Nick says his dog likes to bite him. And then he begins to beat out a fashionable rhythm with his ham.
After that he says: “And to be honest, sometimes you can fall like this.” Nick falls face first into the table he was standing on.
And he continues:
“It happens in life that you fall, and it seems you have no strength to get up. You wonder then if you have hope... I have neither arms nor legs! It seems that if I try to get up even a hundred times, I won’t be able to. But after another defeat, I don’t give up hope. I will try again and again. I want you to know that failure is not the end. The main thing is how you finish. Are you going to finish strong? Then you will find the strength to rise up - in this way.”
He leans his forehead, then helps himself with his shoulders and stands up.
The women in the audience begin to cry.
And Nick begins to talk about gratitude to God.
I'm not saving anyone
– Are people touched and consoled because they see that someone is having a harder time than they are?
“Sometimes they tell 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 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, enslaved and abused. During this time, she had two children, one of them died. Now she has . Her parents don't want to communicate with her. What can she hope for? She said that if she had not believed in God, she would have committed 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 without arms and 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 in person - another person like him. And they had hope. It is important for everyone to know that they are not alone and that they are 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 - about 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, 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.
I can tell you many times when teenagers came up to me and said: “Today I looked in the mirror with a knife in my hand. This 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 either! Only God can. What I have is not Nick's achievements. If it were not for God, I would not be here with you and would no longer 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?
- A friend's smile.
Once I was told 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 several more times. I asked him one day: “What would you like to say to all people?” He said, "What do you mean?" I replied: “If only 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 the people. Try to be a milestone in someone's life story. At least do something. Something to be remembered."
Hug without hands
Nick used to fight for independence in every detail. Now, due to a busy schedule, more cases have begun to be entrusted to the patronage worker, who helps with dressing, moving and other routine matters. Nick's childhood fears did not come true. He recently got engaged, is about to get married, and now believes that he doesn’t need his hands to hold his bride’s heart. He no longer worries about how he will communicate with his children. Chance 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 laid her head on his shoulder.
Nick can't shake anyone's hand - he hugs people. And even set a world record. A guy without arms hugged 1,749 people in an hour. He wrote a book about his life while typing 43 words per minute on a computer. In between work 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 my principles include great power, I continue to take 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 God’s help.
Parents of disabled children usually divorce. My parents didn't divorce. 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? Absolutely right.
How many people would believe it 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 as I am, they wonder: “How can you smile?” For them this is a visible miracle. I need my trials to make me realize how dependent I am 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 without legs and see in them peace, joy - what everyone strives for.”
Australian motivational speaker, writer, singer and philanthropist Nick Vujicic became a father for the third time.
His wife Kanae Miyahara gave birth to twin girls, whom the happy parents named Ellie and Olivia.
The 35-year-old speaker was born with tetra-amelia, a rare genetic disorder that results in missing limbs. Nick has no arms or legs, just one partial foot with two fused toes.
Happy father shared good news with millions of fans on Facebook:
“Thank you everyone for your love and prayers! Baby Olivia and Ellie were born on mom’s birthday... Mom and the girls are doing great.”
Nick added that the girls weigh 5 pounds 2 ounces and 5 pounds 14 ounces (just over two kilograms - Ed.).
The Australian speaker met his future wife at one of his motivational lectures. In February 2012, Nick and Kanae got married. Their first child, Kiyoshi James, will be five years old in February, and youngest son Dejan Levi is now three years old.
All four of Nick's children are absolutely healthy and did not inherit their father's genetic disorder.
Nick's fans heartily congratulated his family on a joyful event. Newborn photos for a short time collected more than 370 thousand likes and almost 40 thousand shares. Subscribers noted that Nick and Kanae are wonderful parents who will surround Ellie and Olivia with attention and love.
Nick Vujicic has become famous around the world as a motivational speaker, inspiring people to change their lives for the better. At the age of ten, he tried to commit suicide by drowning himself in the bathtub, but realized that he could not deal such a blow to his parents.
Over time, Nick learned with the help of his only foot not only to walk, but also to swim, ride a surfboard and skateboard, write and type on a computer.
In 1999 he opened non-profit organization“Life without limbs, helping disabled people around the world. His books Life Without Limits, Be Strong and Unstoppable have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Photo: Nick Vujicic's Facebook @nickvujicic
Imagine that you were born without arms.
There are no hands, it is impossible to hug anyone, there are no hands to feel touch, or to hold 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.
In 1982, in Melbourne, nurse Dushka Vujicic and pastor Boris Vujicic were preparing for the birth of their son. This was their long-awaited firstborn. The father was in labor. He saw the baby's shoulder - what is it? No hand. Boris realized that he had to leave the room immediately 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 out to him, he began to say: “My son! Doesn't he have a hand? The doctor replied: “No... Your son has neither arms nor legs.” Doctors refused to show the baby to the mother. The nurses were crying. Without any medical explanations, or warnings, Nick Vujicic came into this world without arms and legs. His mother's pregnancy was going well and there was no genetic history to expect such a condition. Imagine how shocked his parents were when they saw their firstborn, this boy, and discovered that he was someone whom the world considers imperfect and abnormal. How will their son live a normal, happy life? What can he do, or become, living with what the world considers such a severe disability? Few thought that this beautiful limbless child would one day become someone who would inspire and motivate people of all walks of life, touching the lives of people in every corner of the world.
Nick only had the semblance of a foot instead of a left leg. The parents managed to get their son into a regular school. Nick became the first disabled child in a regular Australian school. Nick faced more than just the usual challenges of school, such as bullying from classmates and a lack of self-esteem. He also suffered from depression and loneliness, questioning 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 if there was any purpose at all. When he was eight years old, he even tried to commit suicide - he dived face down into the bathtub and tried several times not to emerge so as to choke. But could not. He felt unbearably sorry for his parents, who loved him so madly and whom he loved. Nick never tried to commit suicide again, but he kept thinking why he should live. He won't be able to work, he won't be able to hold his fiancée's hand, he won't be able to hold his child when he cries. One day, Nick’s mother read an article about a seriously ill man who inspired others to live. “Then I realized that I am not just a man without arms and legs. I am God’s creation... And it doesn’t matter what people think.”
A hundred attempts to get up
After large quantity disappointments and the feeling that he is the only one a strange man at school, 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 was still not like his classmates, and in practice, they were too heavy for Nick to control, greatly affecting his mobility.
As Nick grew, he learned to deal with his shortcomings and began to do more and more things on his own. He adapted to his situation and found ways to perform many of the activities that humans can do using only their limbs, such as brushing teeth, combing hair, typing on a computer, swimming, skateboarding, and much more. Over time, Nick began to take advantage of his situation and achieve great things. In the seventh grade, Nick was elected head of the school, and he worked with the student council on projects to raise money for local charities and in companies helping the disabled.
According to Nick, the victory in his struggles throughout his journey, as well as the strength and passion he had for life, can be attributed to his faith, his family, his friends and the 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 of financial planning. One day, when Nick was nineteen years old and studying financial planning at university, he was asked to speak to students. Seven minutes were allotted for the speech. Within three minutes the girls in the hall were crying. One of them could not stop sobbing, she raised her hand and asked: “Can I come up on stage and hug you?” The girl approached Nick and began to cry on his shoulder. She said: “No one ever told me they loved me, no one ever told me I was beautiful just the way I am. My life changed today." From there, Nick began to pursue his dream of being able to inspire others and give them hope through his motivational speaking and sharing 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 highly prestigious in Australia, recognizes young people for their excellence and service to their local community and their nation, as well as their personal achievements. This award is given only to truly inspiring people.
A speaker who goes beyond pure motivation
Today, at the age of 29, 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 a charity. He also has his own motivational speaking company called Attitude Is Altitude. Since his first motivational talk at age 19, Nick has traveled the world sharing his story with millions of people, speaking to groups as diverse as students, teachers, youth, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and church congregations of all sizes. He also told his story and gave interviews to various television networks around the world.
At his shows, he often says, “Sometimes you can fall like this,” and falls face first into the table he was standing on. Nick continues: “There are times in life when you fall and you don’t seem to have the strength to get back up. You wonder then if you have hope... I have neither arms nor legs! It seems that if I try to get up even a hundred times, I won’t be able to. But after another defeat, I don’t give up hope. I will try again and again. I want you to know that failure is not the end. The main thing is how you finish. Are you going to finish strong? Then you will find the strength to rise up - in this way.”
He leans his forehead, then helps himself with his shoulders and stands up.
The women in the audience begin to cry.
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. IN next year Nick plans to perform in more than 20 countries around the world.
“People say to me, 'How can you smile?' I".
These two short videos clearly show the powerful charisma of this man. Try to watch them and not cry.
Nick talks to his audience about the importance of having a 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 perspective 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. He emphasizes the importance of our attitude and how it is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal; and also shows how the choices we make can have a big 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 a learning experience, and 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 as he shows off 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 in order to create and define their vision. Using these new definitions, he challenges every person he meets to change their lives so that they can begin to achieve 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, Nick is truly an inspiring and motivating example.
This year, Nick Vujicic married his girlfriend Kanae Miahara. The wedding took place on February 12, 2012 in California, after which they went on their honeymoon to Hawaii.
He has a healthy and very beautiful wife. Now they live happily and amicably together in California.
Butterfly Circus
In 2009, he starred in the film “The Butterfly Circus,” which tells the story of a man without limbs, Will, and his fate.
At the height of the Great Depression, a showman and owner of his own small circus tours with his troupe throughout the destroyed American province, delighting and lifting spirits. ordinary people in these difficult times. During his journey, he visits a fair booth, where he discovers a man without limbs, who is being exploited there as a living exhibit in a freak show. As a result, this person becomes part of a traveling troupe circus performers. Later, with the help of his new friends, he gains faith in himself and does things he never dared to dream of before...
Short film 22 minutes long. You can watch it with Russian subtitles.
And finally, watch the amazing video he shot in 2011.
In life, always remember that any “difficulties” are relative. Having the will, you can overcome them and then mock them from new heights. Good the world replete with examples such as Nick Vujicic.
Nick Vujicic is a millionaire without arms and legs, whose story will shake everyone to the core. He showed by his example that you can be happy, regardless of life situations. His every day is an example of faith that truly works miracles. Nick teaches about finding faith and hope in your heart. And most importantly, it proves that you can live 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. Duska Vujicic is giving birth. The first child is about to be born. The husband, Boris Vujicic, is present at the birth.
A shoulder appeared. Boris turned pale and left the family room. After some time, a doctor approached him.
“Doctor, my son doesn’t have an arm?” – asked Boris. "No. Your son has neither arms nor legs,” the doctor answered.
Nicholas's parents (as the newborn was named) knew nothing about 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.
Failure is the path to mastery.
Ham. That's what Nick nicknamed the only limb on his body. A resemblance to a foot with two fused toes, subsequently separated surgically.
But Nick thinks that his “ham” is not so bad. He learned to use it to write, type (43 words per minute), drive an electric wheelchair, and push off on a skateboard.
Not everything worked out right away. But when the time came, Nick went to a regular school, along with his healthy peers.
Despair
When you feel like giving up on your dream, force yourself to work one more day, one more week, one more month, and one more year. You will be amazed at what will happen if you don't give up.
“You don’t know how to do anything!”, “We don’t want to be friends with you!”, “You’re nobody!” – Nick heard these words every day at school.
The focus shifted: he was no longer proud of what he had learned; he's fixated on something he can never do. Hug your wife, hold your child...
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 loved him very much. Suicide is dishonest. Unfair towards 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 cannot hide their shock. Sidelong glances, whispers behind his back, grins - Nick responds to everything with a smile. “It’s all because of cigarettes,” he says to those who are especially impressionable. And he makes fun of the children: “I just didn’t clean my room...”.
Humor
Laugh as much as possible. There are days in the life of any person when troubles and hardships pour in as if from a cornucopia. Don't curse trials. 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 or legs - life has played a trick on him, so why not laugh at it?
One day, Nick dressed up as a pilot and, with the permission of the airline, greeted passengers at the gate 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 we 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 educations: accounting and financial planning. He is a successful motivational speaker and businessman. But his main talent is the ability to persuade. Including through art.
Nick's first book is called Life Without Limits: The Path to Amazing happy life"(translated into 30 languages, published in Russian in 2012). In 2009, he played the main role 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 appears in the eyes of others as either a madman or a genius.
“Crazy” - many people think when they watch Nick looking for a wave while surfing or jumping with a parachute.
“I realized that physical dissimilarity limits me only to the extent that I limit myself,” Vujicic once admitted and did not limit himself in anything.
Nick plays football, tennis, and swims well.
Motivation
Think of your attitude towards the world as a remote control. If you don't like the program you're watching, you simply grab the remote control and switch the TV to another program. It's the same with your attitude to life: when you're unhappy with the result, change your approach, no matter what problem you're facing.
At the age of 19, Nick was asked to speak to students at the university where he studied (Griffith University). Nicholas agreed: he came out and briefly told about himself. Many people in the audience cried, and one girl got up on stage and hugged him.
The young man understood that oratory was his calling.
Nick Vujicic traveled to 45 countries, met with 7 presidents, and spoke in front of thousands of spectators. Every day he receives dozens of requests for interviews and invitations to give a speech. Why do people want to listen to him?
Because his speeches do not boil down to the banal: “Are you having problems? 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 people up, saying, “compared to me, everything is not so bad for you.” He just talks to them.
Embrace
I don’t have hands, and when you hug, you press right into their hearts. It's amazing!
Nick admits 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 out. Nick hugs people... with his heart. Once Vujicic even organized a marathon of hugs - 1,749 people hugged with their hearts per day.
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 what you want. But this is just a mood, a feeling. Fear is not real!
Tetra-Amelia syndrome is hereditary. Nick wasn't afraid.
And on 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
Everything good in life begins with hope.
Nick Vujicic 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.
And this is a Nick Vujicic clip with Russian subtitles called “Something More”:
