印度情圣泰戈尔去世41年后，他出生在澳大利亚墨尔本。
他们之间本来没有任何联系，只是泰戈尔曾在诗句中写道：
The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.
世界以痛吻我，我却报之以歌。
这句话，似乎是专门写给他的。
他很不幸，没有得到上天眷顾，一出生便抓到一副烂牌；
他很幸运，没有放弃自己，将一副烂牌打得如此光彩夺目，催人泪下！
你见到他，可能第一眼会稍稍惊讶和害怕，他不是一个正常的人，因为，他一出生就没有四肢，身高不足一米。
Every child comes with the message that the God is not yet discouraged of man.
每一个孩子出生时，都带来信息：神对人并未灰心失望。
他叫尼克·胡哲，英文名Nick Vujicic。
他通过难以置信的勇气、智慧的头脑、对生命坚定的信仰，获得2个大学学位，成为了2个国际公益组织总裁，他拥有自己的演讲公司。他用常人难以理解的坚毅再次诠释了：
Life without limits
人生不设限
他始终没有怨天尤人，没有认命。他是一匹倔强的野马，他的词典中没有不可能。
他的不屈于命运的勇往前行感动了上帝：他虽然四肢全无，但他学会了打字，甚至每分钟达到43音节；
他学会了游泳，能在冲浪板上完成360°旋转；他还学会了潜水，骑马，踢足球
打高尔夫等等！
他做到了很多健全人没有做到的事。他是自己的神！
1982年12月4日，在澳大利亚墨尔本一家普通的医院，尼克·胡哲出生。
他的父亲是和工程师，母亲是一名护士。
期待小生命许久的父亲，见到儿子这般模样，忍不住跑到医院外呕吐。他的母亲也是在四个月后，才敢拥抱他。
“我妈妈曾是护士，她采取了各种预防措施，他们原本期待一个漂亮又健康的男孩，不过我确实很漂亮，只不过有些缺陷而已，但当时那是一个大悲剧。”
尼克·胡哲后来回忆说。这个被命运格外“眷顾”的男孩，一出生便没有了四肢。他所拥有的，仅是在左臀以下有一个带两个趾头的小“脚”。
但是面对这么一个奇怪的残疾孩子，他的父母并没有放弃对他的教育。
他父亲在他6岁时，就教他如何用身体仅有的“小鸡脚”写字，那是一种生命态度。
每个人，不管命运如何，都不能放弃对希望的憧憬，如果你不努力，你不知道自己的明天会有多么广阔，即使尼克·胡哲此刻的遭遇可以用“不堪”和“悲惨”来形容。
You are special, you are unique! You are one of a kind!“ 你没问题，你只是很特别。”
这是世界上最好的父母给这个上帝不小心弄残的孩子的最温暖的鼓励！
是的，“你没问题，你只是很特别！”
尽管上帝给予尼克一具残缺的身躯，但是他的家人，却给了他更加完整的爱。
在尼克18个月大时，父亲便把他放在浴缸里，教他游泳，让他从小就找到勇气。
父亲还教他用仅有的小脚打字，母亲发明了特殊的写字装置，让他能更加方便拿起笔。如今的他，一分钟能打43字符。
What drives me forward like fate?
The Myself striding on my back.
谁如命运似的催着我向前走呢？
那是我自己，在身背后大跨步走着。
世界很大，其实哪里都有奇迹，关键是我们有没有创造奇迹的勇气！
父母在他8岁时送他去上学，入学的尼克·胡哲面对的是同学的嘲笑和欺辱。
10岁时，他曾企图在家里的浴缸里溺水自杀，但是没有成功。
I cast my own shadow upon my path, because I have a lamp that has not been lighted. 我投影我自己的影子在我的路上，因为我有一盏还没有点燃起来的明灯。
13岁那一年，尼克比一个残疾人的故事感动，他看到了前行的力量。那也是一个残疾人，他没有放弃，努力取得了成功，并帮助了很多人，他说：
“上帝把我们生成这样，就是为了给别人希望。”
这句话，让尼克看到了自己，也改变了他的一生。
尼克报名参加过高中学生会主席的竞选，并以压倒性的优势获胜，并被当地媒体评为“勇气主席”。尼克努力地学会了骑马、打高尔夫、游泳、冲浪、打鼓、踢足球。
The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars. 山峰如群儿之喧嚣，举起他们的双臂，想去捉天上的星星。
他学习很出色，同学很喜欢这个宝贝。是一个标准的学霸，付出的努力可能只有上帝才知道，我们该如何心疼这个不一样的年轻人。
2010年，尼克是演讲中遇见了自己的爱情。世间所有的遇见，都是缘定的今生。
他的女人来自日本，是个住在洛杉矶的日裔女孩，叫宫原佳苗。长头发，大眼睛，美丽动人。
离2012年的情人节还差2天，有情人终成眷属，他们结婚了！
Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.
爱就是充实了的生命，正如盛满了酒的酒杯。
“我曾经想，我连牵着妻子的手都没有，我怎么敢奢求结婚？是她让我明白，我虽然无法牵着她的手，但我会握着她的心。”
他已经是四个孩子的父亲。如此的幸福。他已经成了一个符号，一个用生命歌唱的符号。
在尼克·胡哲自己看来，所有的痛苦都是人生的宝贵财富，在他心中，自己所做的一切只要能改变一个人的生命，那么一切都是值得的。或许连他自己都不知道，他已经产生了多么大的影响力，他已经让数以万计原本消极对待生命的人，重新对梦想充满希望！
尼克·胡哲嗓音富有磁性，思路清晰，语言幽默，最关键的是，他有与众不同的人生经历可以与别人分享，给所有人坚持下去的力量。在多年磨练当中，他具备了异常坚韧的心智和丰富的阅历。这些精神上的素养完全弥补了肉体上的缺陷，帮助他超越了健全的大多数人，取得非凡的成就！
他来过中国，在北京、上海、西安、武汉等地高校的讲堂，他用自信的笑容、铿锵的语句，赢得黄皮肤黑眼睛的中国人的尊重与掌声。
歪叔在一起《鲁豫有约》中看到他，很感动！正如他自己所说：
“如果没有奇迹，就让自己成为奇迹。”
最后，我们来听听他的英文演讲，感受一下榜样的力量：
Thank you very much. Guys, my name is Nick Vujicic, I was born in Australia in 1982, moved from Australia to California in the year 2006. And my life story — I’m just thankful that people have seen my life on some sort of level — whether it’s just YouTube videos or seeing pictures of a limbless guy smile.
You know, people always ask me you know, what happened to you and how did you overcome what you’ve been through? The title of the message that I’ve been given is “Transforming the walls into doors“. When I speak corporately, the line that I like to use is “changing obstacles into opportunities“.
Now, I am very well aware to share with you as well. I know that there are a billion people going hungry today. I know that this year, a million people will commit suicide. That is one every seconds. I know today there are million slaves and I’ve met sex slaves, and I’ve seen the top of the pyramid as far as business and met the billionaires. I’ve met bankers and I’ve also met orphans.
We’re all looking for something. We’re all looking for hope. Hope you can’t just have just because you were born with hope. No, we’re born with pain. We’re born and live through difficulties.
In our life — my parents always taught me that even though we don’t know why I was born this way, that we have a choice. Either to be angry for what we don’t have or be thankful for what we do have. The power of that choice was the first thing that I had to overcome and decide for myself, especially in the early years of school.
A lot of kids would come up to me and tease me. And I have been speaking at 5 congresses,
I’ve met 7 presidents all around the world. My largest crowd was 110,000, I have 30,000 invitations for me to speak. So wherever I go, I talk about the value of life, I talk about anti-bullying messages for the school systems in different nations.
The greatest thing is love. When we feel like we don’t have enough love and we don’t have enough hope, we start losing strength to live. For me in my life as a child, I had a big wall. I was surrounded by four walls and a low ceiling of opportunity. I was set free in so many different ways and especially surviving from day to day with my parents who loved me, who encouraged me, who told me that I was beautiful the way that I was and not to worry about what other people said about me.
I was actually the first special needs child to be integrated into the mainstream education system in Australia and I was awarded Young Citizen of the Year in 1990. And the world is a hurting place and the world needs hope and world needs love. Without hope, we feel like, 'Why are we here?’
Well, brokenness. Here’s mine. Today, I still have no arms and no legs, but everything’s changed. Everything. For me, I was looking for hope and happiness and I couldn’t see it for many years. In fact, if this side of the table represents my hope, truth encourages me to become all that I can be. But then we have lies, everyday, coming in our mind, people who discourage us.
You know the people that you have in your life who, no matter how good of a day you’re having, they’ll bring you down? Or no matter how bad of a day you’re having, they’ll bring you even lower? You know what I’m talking about?
Think of the 3 biggest discourages in your life. They’re not your biggest discourages. You are. You are. It only takes seconds for me to tell you something discouraging but then, you may never forget my words.
I’ve met so many 50-year-old women and 40-year-old women who still remember what their fathers told them that they wish they’d never heard. Words are powerful. And when you hear those words and then your mind starts growing with these lies. “Nick, you’re not good enough, Nick just give up, Nick you’ll never get a job”, “You won’t get married, you can’t even hold your wife’s hand”. “What kind of a father are you going to be if you can’t even pick up your kids when they’re crying?” You’re alone. Sure, your parents hug you. But their hugs can’t heal you. Just give up. Just give up. Just give up….
At age 8 I thought that I should commit suicide. Why? Because I didn’t have hope. I thought I didn’t have hope. Today you can see that I had hope. What’s the word, believing in something you do not see? Faith.
Words can only do so much. Hugs can do much more than words, but when hugs can’t do anything, that’s where faith kicks in. For me, words and hugs were not enough, but I had no faith. So I tried to give up. At age 10, I tried to drown myself in 6 inches, or 15 centimeters of water, in my home. I told my dad I just wanted to relax, but really, I wanted to end my life. I had enough. I had enough. Ok?
The first two times I rolled over. I was trying to work out how much air I hold in my lungs before I let it out. And the third time, in my mind, knowing that I wanted to get out of here, because of the bullying in my life, because I was going to be a burden to my parents and I had nothing to look forward to. I realized at that moment that if I actually went through with committing suicide, I would leave a greater burden for my parents than they already had.
Still there was one thing less… sorry, there was one thing less hopeful or more burdensome than having a child without limbs. What is it? A child without limbs who gives up. So when I saw in my mind my mom and my dad and my brother crying at my grave if I went through with it, that one thought saved me.
If my parents never told me that I was beautiful the way I was. If my parents never told me that I was special and that I was loved, I wouldn’t be here today. So I encourage every single parent who tries their best to encourage their teenagers, especially in the West, many teenagers put a 'do not disturb’ sign on their door. I’m sure, you know, the conversations all around the world between a parent and a teenager: How was school? – Fine. – What did you learn? – Nothing. – Did you do your homework? – No. And that’s the conversation for the day.
And when you try to tell your children that they’re beautiful, they say, “Of course I’m beautiful, I’m your son, your daughter, of course you’re going to say that”. But they’re right. Every single human being has value and my value is not determined on how I look or what job I have, or where I’m from, where I was born, how much money, all that stuff is nothing.
So many teenagers, you know, tease each other for how we look and I tell the teenagers, “Do you think that I’m cool enough to be your friend?” And they’re like, “Yeah, of course”. I say, “But I have no arms and no legs”, and they say, “Doesn’t matter.” And I say, “Really? So it doesn’t matter that I have no arms and no legs?” They say, no, it doesn’t matter. I say then, “Actually, if it doesn’t matter, then why do we kill each other with our words, if it actually doesn’t matter?” Why do we look ourselves in the mirror and see ugly instead of valuable?
I want to ask you today, what are you looking for? If I gave you a billion dollars, would you be happy? If you gave me a billion dollars, I’d be very happy. But then if my mom dies tonight, am I happy? No. With all the money in the world, I’d never be happy. Right? Because money is something that cannot heal the soul.
So many teenagers are looking for love which, love does heal the soul, love does complete the soul. But even sex before marriage, I was a virgin before I got married. Yeah, I’ve got a gorgeous wife, we’re pregnant with our first son. And I don’t need hands to hold her hand. I only want to hold her heart.
And you know, how am I going to hug my kid? So many kids that come up to me, it’s amazing. They put their hands behind their back and hug me with their neck. And I’ve realized in life, even the worst parts of my life can be turned into good. And even more special.
So many teenagers are looking for love so they are going to go do this, and go do that and have sex before marriage. For me, sex out of marriage is like a 5 dollar Gucci watch. Sex within marriage and having sex with someone who loves you, who is committed to you for the rest of your life, going to be the mother or father of your kids, that’s what love is. You can sleep with as many people as you like but never know for sure, “Do they love me?”
Love is a life-long commitment. You see, there are choices in life. And we’re looking. I want to ask you, what are you looking for? If I can just drunk, why not, man? I’ll only live once. Well, if that’s the way you believe, great. But for me, I’m a greedy man, I don’t want to live for years. I want to live for billions of years. And I know that every day, my choices will affect this life, other people’s life and my eternal life.
You got to come to the truth of knowing who you are and why you’re here. William Barkley, he said, the greatest two days in anyone’s life — they day you were born, and the day you knew why.
So, “Uh, you’re ugly”. No, I’m beautiful the way that I am and if you can’t believe that for yourself, so many girls, specially, stay with their emotionally abusive boyfriends because, “If I break up with him, then who is going to want me?” See, we all want love.
That’s why we do what we do sometimes. To get into the crowd — I am going to swear, I am going to be cool — that’s what this world is — “I want to look like her, I want to like… if I was taller, shorter, smarter, more popular” — whatever you want, it’s not enough… Until you find the truth. I’m wonderfully and faithfully made. There is a greater purpose for my life. I am here for a reason.
Sure, I didn’t get a miracle. Yeah, I believe in a God who can do miracles and I have a pair of shoes in my closet. Why? I’ve seen blind people seeing and deaf people hearing. That’s fine if you don’t believe me, I’ve got it on camera. But I realized something. If God doesn’t change my circumstance, he’s going to use my life to be a miracle for someone else. When you don’t get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.
I’m going to close off with this beautiful story.
I was in Southern California — I have organizations, a non-profit organization and I have a for-profit. I probably spoke between years 2007 and 2010, 1000 times, 600 flights. And I’ve spoken to 4.5 million people face to face and in the last 48 hours here in Serbia, we’ve reached 5 million through media. So, we have the heart of people to love others. We want people to love each other, love yourself dream big and never give up.
We are all looking for hope, aren’t we? What are you looking for? Money, drugs, sex, alcohol, pornography, fame, fortune. Never satisfies. It’s never enough. But I have come to peace, so check this out.
When I’m 24 years old, 5-6 years ago, I was in California. And I’d never met anybody else like me. When I was 10 years old, I wished I would have met somebody like me. Never did, didn’t get that miracle. But at 24, in California, I saw a little boy with no arms and no legs, 19 months old, just like me.
I knew he was going to be bullied, he was going to go through depression, he would feel alone, I knew that he would get worried if he’s ever going to have a girlfriend and so on, and so on. I got the father to bring him up on stage in front of 2000 people. And everyone was crying. And it was a materialization of when you don’t get a miracle, you can be a miracle for someone else.
I am not a superhero, I go through ups and downs, so do you. But take one day at a time and if you haven’t found that piece of knowing who you are and why you’re here and where you’re going when you’re not here. For me, I want you to know that’s how I’ve overcome.
I don’t have any walls. My book’s called “Life without limits” and what will be, will be. I’ve acted in a short film, 30 awards. I got best actor in a short film. I’ve done my own music video.
I’ve written 2 books, first book — 30 languages, 800,000 copies. I’m 29 and we know a billion people know who I am.
Not to bring out my pride or my name or my status, trust me, I’m just like you. But I hope you are inspired to know that if I can dream big, then so can you. There are no walls. Find your peace and you’ll make your walls doors. Thank you so much.
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