Few days back, I had the opportunity to attend an Inspirational Talk by a very inspirational personality, Mr. Nick Vujicic. Nick was born without limbs – no arms, no legs. Something that we can never imagine how, and will never ever be able to empathize with, his way of living.
I supposed many of us had some how or rather chanced upon a video about Nick over the Facebook. I have the privileged to hear from him in person. Thanks to SWIBER Holdings. SWIBER had invited Nick to Singapore to speak to their employees, and had extended this rare opportunity to some schools, Chris Church Secondary School was one of the schools that Nick spoke at. My team and I (Everest Team) had given a talk to SWIBER, but frankly, our story of perseverance, tenacity & resilience are nothing compared to Nick’s.
Nick’s life story is like a movie, a story that I never thought could have happened in this life time of mine, and I could have only imagine that Nick’s amazing journey will only happen in a movie. If you have not read about Nick, you should spend sometime to find out about his story.
A few quotes that he said make very good sense to me, and these are very basic thoughts that we took for granted. These thoughts are not new to me, but the impact is greater when it came from Nick:
“You don’t know what you don’t know till you know”
“You don’t know what you can achieve till you try”
“What is the point of having arms & legs when you don’t know what to do with them”
“You don’t need arms & legs to love”
Nick’s strong faith in GOD has brought him to be who he is today. I am not a Christian, and in whatever that we each believe in, we are in the same direction. And my take is, when we believe in something or put faith to something, it must be for the good of ourselves or the people around us. If we haven’t have faith in any religion, we should have at least some faith in ourselves.
In Nick’s sharing, he said not to get angry with what we already have instead angry with what we don’t have. For Nick, I bet he can’t and certainly won’t be angry with what he have. And I wonder what Nick would be like if he had been born with arms and legs like you and I. One thing that I can attest is that, we will have one less person to inspire us and to show us the true meaning of life.
As long as we are alive, we can love everything and anything, and yes, we don’t need our arms and legs to love.
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