Nick Vujicic - No Arms No Legs No Worries Italiano

thank you thank you very much good morning everybody morning how you doing y'all fine ensuite nice to see you my name is Nick voyage church and it's a pleasure to be with you I have a wheelchair over there it's my BMW 7-series gonna take it to pimp my ride and get some spinning rims on it and no those fully pimped cars you know with hydraulics and stuff you know how they bounce around and stuff I want to get my wheelchair bouncer like if I can cross the road and go Bob it's really cool driving that thing around I have no arms and no legs and I was actually born this way and there's no medical reason why this would happen so I have no limbs but I have a little chicken drumstick and we call this a chicken drumstick because first of all it looks like one and second of all sometimes my dog thinks it's one and I tell you man it's so funny he comes up to start biting on it and have shoot him in the head a couple times it's nice man it's so cool man I I love to swim as well and I actually float like a lifejacket I float upright like this and then I have my little murder down here and I got my ice right and it's so funny when people see me for the first time it's so cool your kids freak out you know what I'm saying um I tell you this little boy came up to me and he goes what happened and I went up to him and I go cigarettes and there was this one girl who saw me and she goes mommy look it's an alien so I went up to her and I you know she's like I'm running after her same I'm gonna eat you yeah freaking her out so with my little foot I can also write this is my pen here and actually I can actually write n-type with my foot but I've learned how to draw and all this sort of thing so that's pretty cool I've learned how to type 43 words a minute on a normal computer and sort of like a heel and toe heel in toe combination and I'm learning sign language with my foot I'm learning it ready piece is that cool very cool anyway look we're gonna have some fun today and I'm just going to tell you the funniest story of all is so funny I was in the car one day and when you see me from the outside of the car you have no idea that I have no arms and no legs right you just see my gorgeous face and we're at the traffic lights one day and this car comes up next to us and this girls looking at me and I'm like cool let's have some fun here so I know she has no clue that I have no limbs and so I look at her and I grab the seatbelt in my mouth and I loosen it like this and then in the car seat and just did this and she was like she's like yo man it's very cool anyway I have a couple of things to show you I play drums do you believe me I actually pray drums I get the drumsticks in my teeth I'm just joking no look I uh I have a drum machine up here and we're just gonna so what it is basically it's a it's a pad right and there's like 16 buttons and so each button represents a sound right so I'm not pressing play or anything like that all right you see my foot all right it's like like serious okay you like that within so that's sort of more like your rocking you know sort of pop whatever but then you got the UH ah can we have some more volume please give me some o juice right all right so here we go right so it's like you like that I'll be really cool if I could get this on my wheelchair and play it while I'm driving and get some techno going like a row there you go you like that is that go beautiful so I have a tennis ball here and I just want to show you how far I can kick this thing and a lot of people are like freaking out you know how can you do that and I just want to show you it's really really cool can I have a volunteer please to catch a ball for me let's see let's see let's see sure I'll get you how you doing yeah see my finger pointing at you stand up how you doing beautiful what's your name what is it Jake nice to meet you take now can I get you to do me a favor and probably just go up that way see my finger pointing that way just up that way a little bit can you guys make a little bit of a path for him to go in amongst the crowd a little bit beautiful now just face me Jake now I just want to show everybody how far I can actually boot this thing I'm a big fan of David Beckham I love David Beckham I love it how he curves that ball and so I'm practicing you know what I mean so I'm just going to maybe just to get you to move back keep them moving back give me on back back back back give me on back back back back back back back I'm joking bro I can't kick that fire come forward it's all good I'm just joking all right right there is good right there is good now that's a pretty big kick so I'm going to take a little bit of a run-up here so then we just just just just well I think it is so good I just want to see if I get you scared a little bit alright here we go you ready mate now when you get this ball don't throw it back because I can't catch you understand me alright you're ready here we go when you get this ball just come up here on stage is that cool ready one two look at I jump up mate on this side beautiful now Jake hey you're having a good day today that's good I'll get you to hold that for me beautiful now we're not done with you yet bro alright so just get you to stand there face the crowd so uh anything new happen in your life today schoolhouse school boring you anything no just probably something yeah cool did your homework no all right girl I say here we go so I wonder what I want to just be real with you there's a cool game I want to play with you if that's cool I'm going to get your right hands on the table all right that's a cool ring oh I'm gonna get me one of those get a toe ring you know what I mean when they I'm going to get a wristwatch too anyway just put the whole hand on here beautiful now what we're going to do we're going to play a game called slappers okay now I don't know if you know this game is but basically I'm gonna slap you okay and if you when I go like this you've got to move out of the way before I get you so it's a race between your hand and the chicken drumstick alright so what's going to happen is you got five shots okay and if I miss you once out of the five you win that make sense you're only gonna beat me once to win okay you ready you said you were having a good day today yeah that's good it's gonna change okay this is it I'm checking already are you scared you're not scared alright ready number one so when I go like this you go like exactly okay gotta be quick though okay ready number one all right it's number one number two all right number three I'll make it easier for you I'll even look away and I'll close my eyes okay now is his hand still there I've done this a couple times so you can't cheat on me all right now it close my eyes your hands there is his hang there all right you ready all right number four Oh give me a hug man I love you get rid of course guys thanks so much stick alright real quick I've got a I've got a phone up here it's not my cell phone but it's a normal phone I just ripped it off the wall ah I'm going to actually show you how I can actually flick this phone onto my shoulder it's very cool so it's actually not always guarantee that it's going to happen the first time so what happens when you fail very good very good so why can someone give me a sound for ringing phone please thank you thank you okay ready hey is that cool awesome I want to talk about like when I started you know go to school and stuff a lot of people put me down you know what I mean like people tease each other I mean people come up and say hey you're fat you're fat you're fact in fact you're fat you're fat you're fat you know you lose some weight and you're like you go home and you look yourself in the mirror and go oh right and so many people tease each other you know you're too short you're too tall you look whatever a different hair and all that it doesn't matter see thing is when you're in school when you're growing up in life it actually sort of matters to people how you look and then he matters to you because it matters to others why why does it matter how you look because if they don't like you then who will if they don't accept you then who will and the fear that we have is that we're going to be alone that we're not good enough and you know we have to change ourselves you know so many people put me down and say Nick you look too weird and no one's really your friend and you can't do this and you can't do that and I couldn't change anything it's not like just fixing my hair one day and everything's fine it's not like you know just whatever I couldn't change my circumstance I couldn't just one day wake up and say hey give me arms and legs I need arms legs and I mean like oh we went to a bodybuilder you know and said can you make me some arms and legs no Jackie buddy bill do you get it right this is hey you know I got to be able can you give me a hand you're not just joking hit but it was so hard because people put me down and I started believing that I was not good enough I started believing that I was a failure they'll never ever be somebody who people would like or people would accept and it was so hard man I thought to myself you know I can't go on to go on the soccer field like everybody else and I can't ride my bike and I can't skateboard and all these sort of things and I started getting depressed I thought what kind of purpose do I have to live I mean do you are you just here to live to die I mean is there not a purpose for me is there not a purpose in life and I had questions and no answers and asked my mom and dad why did this happen I asked doctors why did this happen they don't know there are some things in life that are out of your control that you can't change and you got to live with the choice that we have though is either to give up or keep on going I want to ask you what are you going to believe are you going to believe in yourself you're going to believe everybody else's judgment on you are you going to believe people when they say that you're a failure no one really likes you don't really cares about you and it's not really to say that hey you need someone to come up and say hey really I I like you I care about you no it's not that but it's the fact that people put you down people don't even look you in the eye people ask you how you why and you say fine but you're not fine and they'll know they'll never know that I tell your life is interesting life's a journey see this phone here let's say that I want to go to the phone right and I start from over here now to get to the phone it's not like I'm going to start meditating and going hum right and float across the air right that's not going to work it's not like I'm gonna go hum and you know it's not going to work so I have to take one step at a time one step at a time one step at a time you can only take one step at a time I don't care how big your step is it's only one step at a time you can't do two steps in one understand so it's like one step at a time and you take steps in this direction you take steps in that direction sort of get lost along the way and sometimes you fall down now to illustrate my point I'm going to jump off the table do a back twist and land on the floor okay is that cool are you ready but there's a clock there okay can you move the clock for a second please beautiful beautiful all right you ready so are you guys ready just let me know when you're ready are you ready okay ready one two I'm joking man ladies serious just put the clock back there if I did that I'll break my arm or something your honor mean but honestly along the way you might fall down like this ready so what do you do when you fall down get back up everybody knows to get back up because if I start walking I'm going to get anyway but I tell you there are some times in life where you fall down and you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up you so you sort of put a mask on your face when you come to school and pretend that everything's okay when it's not and you go home and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself and fear comes in you know the fear that you have as soon as you walk into the doors of your house maybe there's a broken home maybe you have doubt in your life maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future and it scares you maybe about you maybe you're worried about what people think of you what people say about you just that fear paralyzes you and I just want to ask you today do you think you have hope because I tell you I'm down here face down and I have no arms no legs it should be impossible for me to get back up I mean you go home and tied the legs and arms of your brothers and sisters and like push them down and see how long it's going to take him to get back up you know what I mean you know you can tell them that you'll see them tomorrow you know what I mean but this is the thing it should be impossible for me to get back up but it's not you see I will try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times if I fail and I give up do you think that I'm ever going to get up no but if I fail I try again and again and again for as long as I try there's always that chance of getting up does that make sense and it's not the end until you've given up and just the fact that you're here should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up there's still hope I'm not here today to tell you that I understand your pain I don't know how it feels to be abused I don't know how it feels to feel quote fat and you've got an eating disorder I don't know how it feels to have a broken home I don't know how it feels but I now first have a broken heart and I have feels to be alone and I want you to know that I found my strength in Jesus Christ and you're going to find your strength in whatever you find it in but I just want you to know that it's not the end it matters how you're going to finish are you going to finish strong and you will find that strength to get back up like this how did I get from depressed to Who I am today because I tell you I was depressed when I was age 8 I used to concentrate on the things I didn't have I wish I had arms legs and I wish I could do this but what can I do you see I have a choice that's what I want to talk about today choices I can either be angry for not having arms and legs we'll be thankful for my chicken drumstick you see I can still do a lot of things at home I can brush my teeth comb my hair get myself ready in the morning I'm travelling around the world it's amazing but I had to ask myself a couple questions and the first question was really Who am I Who am I I'm Nick voyage but who is that and it's funny how the friends around you sort of determine who you are you change yourself you come to school and everybody swore around me in high school so I started swearing why because it's the cool thing to do everybody swears so I don't want to be left out and I want to be accepted so I started swearing you go to a party everybody's drinking so you drink one else around me is doing a big deal and you start losing yourself and you stop putting your security in temporary things you start putting your happiness in things that won't last you can get drunk or you like but in the morning you're going to be sober with a headache with the same problems you want to be high the rest of your life on drugs everybody said don't do drugs don't do drugs well why why do we even go there so that a curiosity peer pressure or trying to escape reality basically three things that's why we go to drugs sex alcohol why do you do it because it feels good okay that's how we're doing I mean if you want something you go get it you want to buy something you save up money you go get it why because that will make you happy and we take these steps in the wrong direction that will actually take you away from your dreams oh don't worry Nick drugs and alcohol won't take me away from my dreams and my purpose and sex and all that now but I tell you it actually will because you go to a level of drinking and you go to a level of drugs and it's not enough you'll find that out then you try something new and then you'll also go to school and people put you down and parents will tell you that you're a failure because you failed at a test and you start believing the lies around you saying that you're not good enough and no one's going to want you and you'll never ever do anything good in your life and you'll never ever you know hm to achieve the dreams and goals that you wish you had done or wish that you could do and these steps take you closer that voice saying you're not good enough you're not good enough you're not good enough and all you need is one more step to fall so you have a choice to know which step you're going to take today let me ask you do you know who you are you want to know who I think you are you care about what your friends think who you are you know you care about their opinion you want to know who I am you know what I think you are I'll tell you right now I don't care how you look honestly if you're 400 kilos I'm going to come up to you and give you a hug and say that I love you I don't care if you're fat salt or then what I came I really don't care how you look I don't care what you're good at I don't care what you're not good at I don't care if you like rock and roll music or not I don't care I don't care I think a if you're good mathematician or a good athletic or not good at anything that you think but I'm going to come and tell you that you're awesome just the way you are I know so many teenagers who look themselves in the mirror and wish that they had a different body girls you're beautiful just the way you are you're gorgeous you're gorgeous just I love you just the way you are and you boys you're the man because it's not how you look when you see me for the first time many of you felt sorry for me do you feel sorry for me anymore no why because you know who I am but don't you remember I have no arms and no legs would you want to be my friend of course you would why because you like Who I am but I have no arms no legs and you're going to say so what so when you say well I have this or I don't have that I'm going to go so what I don't care you are worth more than diamonds all the diamonds in the world you are so precious every single one of your hearts you can do something not just something that you can do but you can live life life is not always good life is always not rosy a life is worth living when you find purpose Nick I don't know my purpose is I don't know my parents want me to do this my teachers want me to do that my friends think that I should do this and I don't know what to do and you're torn man you don't know what to do you have to make important decisions man you don't know what to do who do you believe follow your heart if that's who you want to be if that's what you want to do in life then walk to it one day at a time that phone might feel so far away in fact it might seem impossible for you to reach that let's say that phone was all the way at the back of the room how am I going to get off this table I can't how am I going to get there I can't but I want you to know that nothing is impossible and if it is impossible for your dreams to come true let's say you want to become a pilot and you can't be a pilot for some reason maybe your eyesight or maybe your height I know somebody who couldn't be a pilot they're doing something now that they actually love to do see all things come together for the good that's how it is in my life you see there's nothing good about having no arms and legs is there no if I you know click my fingers metaphorically speaking and your arms and legs disappeared do you think you'd be happy with me know you'd come run after me and headbutt me okay because there's nothing good about having no limbs but I love my life do you want to know why because I've seen the purpose because I have no arms no legs you're all listening to what I have to say this is maybe the most attentive you've been in any guest speaker because everybody else is boring and what would they know anyway that's what you think don't worry I was at school to like what do you know I didn't care what many people have to say they have no idea what I'm going through what pain do they know but you see me and you see what sort of pain I could go through what I've gone through and all of a sudden now I'm seeing all of you and maybe for the first time you're believing these words out of my mouth saying I love you and you don't even know me but you actually believe that I do love you you see it's an unconditional love you don't have to do anything for me to love you I just love you why I don't know because I just love you why it's love it's unconditional love not only is it about you and your life but what about the people around you you know if you think that you have no purpose I don't know what I want to do you know I wish I could do this but I don't think this is going to happen in my life let me tell you there so many people came up to me and said Nick I don't have a purpose I don't know what to do in my life let me ask you one thing if you went through your life full of pain full of tears and at the end of your life you actually save somebody's life is your life worth living is the pain worth someone's life if you could actually save somebody can you imagine if you actually saw somebody nearly get run over account you dive and get them out of the way of the car for instance an example would that be worth living you save somebody's life I don't know what about this let's say do you have a problem in your life and you want to give up now imagine if someone ten years older who's gone through the exact same thing that you have actually got through it and came to you and said you know what I know how it feels I've been there I've been going through what you're going through now but I'm still here would that not encourage you could that possibly save your life yes is that not a purpose worth living for and that's why I believe in you because that is the greatest purpose it's to love honest it sounds corny whatever you want to say I don't care I love people because there is freedom and power in loving people you have a choice every day you come to school to either teach somebody gossip about somebody or you can go up to them and encourage them you can go up to somebody and say hey you're looking good today when you ask him how you're doing and they say okay and you know they're not okay you can say no really how are you doing you could save somebody's life I really need no I don't think so check this out I was six years old grade 112 people teased me I counted them all on my fingers while people teased me and at the end of the day 10:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon I said I can't do this if one more person teases me today that's it I'm going to give up and I'm driving in my wheelchair my BMW 7-series to my to my parents right and there is this one girl who yells out hey Nick I'm thinking great here it is she comes to me and she says Nick I just want you to know that you're looking good today and I'm like oh the power of encouragement you can save a person's life could I tell you I was walking man this way you're not good enough people telling me no one loves you you didn't nothing good in your life you can't do this you can't do that no one's going to want to marry you and all these sort of things and get to the edge and all I needed was that one more person to tell me that I wasn't good enough and I'll be down there do you know that you could be that one person for somebody else to push them over you don't know how many people have eating disorders in this school you don't know how many people want to hurt themselves in this school they hide it you don't know how many people hate their life and you're one of the reasons why can you imagine that serious why just because you want to have fun grow up grow up I'd dare this school not to tease another person for the rest of the day I dare you I dare you do you think it's possible people say well I won't do it but everybody else will be the change you want to see and you be that person and turn them around this school should have every person having a friend you see somebody having no friends why don't you go up to that person and be their friend because you're scared of what people think of you let's do it let's wake up embrace it man let's live I love my life nothing stopped me am I happy all the time no no I'm not happy all the time I'm not happy I cry sometimes not because of no arms and legs this is easy I'm talking about the things in life that I other things around like stressed about and anxious about it the person that I love they're hurting and I can't do anything about that that's what kills me we're all gone through something while trying to find that something that happiness you can find it because I found it check this out you need to learn something do you know for you to learn something it was actually learnt by somebody else and anything that anybody else loans you can actually learn make sense right how'd you know this is black because someone told you it was black why because someone wrote that this was black and you were able to learn that this was black by someone teaching you nothing's really beyond your reach understand what I'm saying but we're not all good at math we're not all good at athletics we're not all good at you know maybe tallying colors big deal find what you love to do I love loving people man I love encouraging people ATS greatest things greatest business in the world saving people's lives love it we're not all going to be speakers we're not all going to be doing something that'd be crazy what do you want to do in your life is there something more to your life because I found something more to my life and I believe it's garden you're on you're in journey it's fine I love you guys so much I love you very much choices are yours I made a choice to keep my virginity until I'm married it's proof beyond words that my wife was worth waiting for do we make wrong choices yes we do are there consequences for bad choices yes there I know I can talk another half an hour and consequences on drugs sex and alcohol but I'm not here to lecture you I'm not here to say not to do drugs and not to do all that stuff look but don't believe that you know everything like though what won't what I don't know won't kill me right those are they saying right that is stupid how dumb is that say I've got a brain tumor and I don't know it is that gonna kill me still yeah boom idiot of course look at me in my life I've made choices and this is how I am this is where I am I love it you know it's cool sorry just get a seat organised that's better put my feet up you know I want to talk about my wife I'm not married I don't know who my wife is yet right it's okay I know she's coming it's fine she's coming just because you have no boyfriend girls it doesn't mean you're not beautiful and that you're not loved you don't need a boyfriend you don't need to use your body as security to make you feel that someone needs you my wife is coming and I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand but I don't need hands to hold her heart that's all I want to hold I'll tell you a real man would wait a real man would not put your life in danger if you're not 100 percent sure they're going to be with together for the rest of your life that's why I haven't had sex because I don't know who I'm going to marry yet why sleep around with everybody else it's so silly why just for temporary pleasure no man it's beautiful - no I've only shared that with my girl my girl and I'm her guy I love that we're gonna have children together I know that how am I going to hug my children when they're crying I used to get depressed over that what kind of a father am I going to be check this out there was a girl she's so cute man you know one of my friends daughters and she was you know two and a half years old she had this pink flowery hat on pink shoes on she was about my height as well and she came here she was hugging everybody goodbye this family function and she comes to me and she sits on the floor and she's just looking at me I'm like cool she's just staring at me I'm like okay what can a two and a half year old honestly be thinking about what is so weird and she was looking at me for about 25 seconds and then she realizes something like this little light ping and I came to it and she realized that I had no hands to hug so when she came up to me to hug me she put her hands behind her back and she hugged me with her neck I know is that more beautiful so beautiful why am I here to tell you this that I love you that everything is going to be ok look today not not to say that I am going to be with you every day to tell you that not to say that I understand what you're going through but today I've come here so you would remember my smile and you'd remember what I said the other choice to either uplift somebody or put someone down you either have the choice to step towards your goals and dreams or step away going into temporary things you have a choice to either give up or keep going give up or get up when you fail try again and again and again once you close your eyes please if you don't close your eyes that's fine just stare at the floor don't talk to the person next to you please I want to ask you how are you what heaviness are you carrying what tears do you hold back what pain what fears are kept inside you don't have to hold on to those fears you just take one step at a time not to say that one day these fears are just going to completely disappear but can you forgive those who've hurt you because that's where healing starts every time someone puts you down will you make a decision to bring somebody else up picture yourself in an open area there's no buildings and there's no shelter and there's a storm above you and this storm represents the situations in your life and you don't tell in your body what you're going through because first of all they wouldn't understand and second of all they can't even help you anyway you're in this storm and you're down on your knees and you're cold and you're weak and you feel like this is the end are you not still here you are still here you don't have to do this alone you can talk to counselors you can talk to people you trust and you're going to talk to whether you talk to but I talked to Jesus but hold on to that person who you think might help you and imagine them right now saying that they can't stop the storm right now but they will hold you and keep you warm until the storm passes because when they hold you the storm still there but it's okay because they're with you all the way think of your friends you look them in the eye and you know maybe they're then they're not really that happy you go to parties and you just look them in the eye and you know that they're hurting as well everybody's trying to cover up can you lift somebody today make the choice today to do something good hold on to that hope up in your hands look at me tears clean the windows of your soul that's why you feel good after crying and I'm here today to hug you I'm a hugging machine and if you want a hug I'm going in a couple minutes get up off this going to go to a table to the side there's a table around the corner behind this camera and I want to hug you I don't want you to hug me like you've never hugged before because there is healing in hugging and I want you to know that I love you guys so much don't give up I know that there is someone always out there who believes it loves you just the way this is exactly what this school needed because teenagers at this point in their life they go through trying to find out who they are and you never really get to find it out with other people people can't tell you who you are you've got to find it for yourself and you've got to be able to respect yourself and learn to love yourself before you can change your environment and that's really been helpful with what Nick said it's just it's told kids that it doesn't matter what you look like it doesn't matter what what it's know like it doesn't matter what what color eyes you have or or if you have braces or anything it just matters who you are on the inside and that person is who everybody should be seen and if they're not seeing it then you shouldn't you should be looking for someone else you should be looking for someone who does see who you are inside and who does love you you are just the way you are is left yourself deep down she has family so she is looking for in all the world please just the way you are thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak into your life and share with you my story I hope you've been challenged and inspired to never give up and I believe that you have been touched I'd love to hear from you write to me go on my website attitude is altitude calm I enjoy reading so many people's testimonials on how my life has impacted theirs so please write to me or email me I also want you to know that there is a book coming and a series of DVDs so be on the lookout for that if you see me on the street face to face make sure you come up and say hello give me a hug I'd love to meet you remember there is always hope never give up you

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Length: 45min 37sec (2737 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 06 2014