尼克胡哲英文演讲稿Part 1“See the Body”Thank you, thank you very much. Good morning everybody.Students: Morning!Morning, how are you doing?Students: Good.You are fine?Students: Yeah.Oh sweet, nice to see you. My name is Nick Vujicic and it’s a pleasure t o be with you. I have a wheel chair over there. It’s my BMW 7 series. I am gonna take it to pimp my ride (翻新)and get some spinning rims on it. And you know those fully pimped cars you know with hydraulic and stuff, you know how they’re downs and around stu ff. I wanna give my wheel chair bouncing.Why? Like i f I can cross the road and go bang bang bang! It’s really cool driving that thing around. I have no arms and no legs and I was actually born this way. And There is no medical reason why this has happened. So I have no limbs, but I have a little chicken drumstick. And we call this 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 so funny he comes up to start biting on that. I have to hit him in the head a couple of times. It’s nuts man. It’s so cool man. I love to swim as well and I actually float like a life jacket. I float upright like this and then I have my little motor down here and I go whirr and that’s right. And it’s so f unny when people see me for the first time. It’s so cool.Kids freaked out. You know what I am saying? I tell you this little boy came up to me and he goes “what happened?” and I went up to him, and I goes:” cigarettes!”. and there was one girl who saw me a nd she goes “mummy! Look, it’s an alien!” So I went up to her and I went:” ah~~” she is like ah~~.I ran after her and said:” I am gonna eat you!” You know，Freak her out! So with my little foot here, I can also write. This is my pen here. I can actually write and type with my foot but I learn how to draw and all this sort of things sot hat’s pretty cool. I learn how to type 43 words a minute on the normal computer. So it’s like a heel and toe heel and toe combination and I am learning sign language with my foot I am learning it.Ready? Peace. Is that cool? Very cool. Anyway, we gonna have some fun today. And I just gonna tell you the funny story of all. It’s so funny. I was in a car one day. 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. when the traffic lights one day, and this car comes up next to us. And this girl looked at me and I am like:” cool! Let’s have some fun here.” I know that she has no clue that I have no limbs so I looked at her, I grabbed the seat belt in my mouth and loose it like this and did it in the car seat, I just did this and she was like，she was like “you are freaking me out, man!” It’s very cool. Anyway, I have a couple of things to show you. I play dr ums. Do you believe me?Students: yeah!I actually play drums; I get the drumstick in my teeth. I am just joking. Look I have drum machine up here and we just gonna. So what it is? Basically it’s a pad right? In this like 16 buttons and so each button represents a sound right? So I am not pressing player or anything like that. You see my foot? All right, it’s like serious. OKDo you like that?Students: yeah!So that’s sort of more like your rocking, you know, or pop or whatever. But then you got ah ah. Can I have some more volume? Please give me some more uh uh juice. Right here we go. So It’s like. Do you like that? Would n’tit be really cool if I could get this on my wheelchair and play while I am driving? And I get sometechno going likehere we go….1,2,3,4 Hey guys, do you like that?Is that cool?Beautiful. So I have a tennis ball here. I just want to show you how far I can kick this thing. And a lot of people are freaking out, you know, wondering how can you do that! And I just want to show you. It’s v ery very cool. Can I have a volunteer please to catch the ball for me? Ah let’s see, let’s see, let’s see, sure, I will get you. How are you doing? Yes, you, my finger point at you. Stand up. How are you doing? Beautiful. What’s your name?Student: Jack.What is it?Jack: Jack.Jack, nice to meet to you today. Now can I get you to do me a favor? And probably just go up that way , see my finger point that way? Up that way a little bit. Can you guys make a little bit of path for him to go in amongst the crowd a little bit? Beautiful, now just face me Jack. Now I just want to show everybody how far I can actually boot this thing. I am a big fan of David Beckham. I love David Beckham. I love how he curves that ball. So I am practicing this thing. You know what I mean? I am just going to maybe get you move back, keep on moving back, keep on back back……keep on back back. I am joking, I can’t kick that far. Come forward. It’s all good. I was just joking. Right, there is good. Right, there is good. Now that’s a prett y big kick so I am gonna take a little bit of run-up here. Let me just Oh I was just joking. I think it’s so good.I just want to see if I can get you scared a little bit. All right. Here we go. Are you ready rightnow when you get this ball, don’t throw it back because I can’t catch, do you understand me? Are you ready? Here we go, when you get this ball just come up here on the stage. Is that cool,Ready, 1, 2. Look at that… Jump up right, on this side. Beautiful, now Jack, have you had a good day today? ‘Yeah.’’Thanks good,I will get you to hold the ball for me. Wait…I am not done with you yet al right?I’ll just get you just stand hereand face the crowd. So anything new happened in your life today? School, out school, boring, learn anything? No. Did your homework? No. All right,here we go.I want to be real with you. There’s a cool game I wanna play with you. That’s cool. I am gonna get your right hand on the table. All right that’s a cool ring. I gonna give me one of those, get a a toe ring. You know what I mean? One day I am gonna get a wrist watch too. Anyway, just put the whole hand on here. Beautiful, now, what we gonna do is we gonna play a game called slapp ers. Ok? Now I don’t know if you know what this game is. Basically, I am gonna slap you,Ok?and if you..when I go like this, you should move away this before I get you, so it’s a race between your hand and the chicken drumstick. All right?So what’s gonna happen. You’ve got 5 shots?Ok? If I miss you once out of the 5, you win. So that make sense? You only got to beat me once to win. Are you ready? You said you are having a good day today yet?This’s good.Th at’s gonna change. I am joking. Are you ready? Are you scared? You are not scared. Are you ready? No.1. so when I go like this, you go like? Exactly. Ok y ou’ve gotta be quicker. No1..No2..No.3. I make it easier for you.I even look away and I’ll close my eyes. Ok, now is his hand still there? I have done this a couple of times. You can’t cheat on me. All right. Now I close my eyes. Your hand’s there? Is his hand there? Are you ready? All right. No.4. I will let you win, ok? Give me a hug, I love you. Give him a round of applause guys. Thank you very much Jack.Alright. Ewal quick, I have got a phone up here. It is not my cell phone. It’s a normal phone. I just ripped it out from the wall. I am gonna actually show you how I can actually flick this phone onto my shoulder. It’s very cool. It’s actually not always guaranteed that itgonna happen the first time. So what happens when you fail?Students: Try again.Very good! Very good! So can someone give me a sound for a ringing phone please. Students: ring ring-ring~~.Thank you, thank you. I am coming. ready? Hey, is that cool? Awesome!Part 2 hear the heartI want to talk about like when I started, you know, go to school and stuff and a lot of people put me down. You know people tease each other I mean people come up and say, ”Hey! you are fat, you are fat , you are fat , you are fat ,..you know, you need to lose some weight” when you go home you look at you rself in the mirror and go “em~ I’m fat！”right？So many people tease each other. As you know, you’re too short, too tall, you look like whatever, different hair and all that, It doesn't matter.Seeing thing is, when you’re in school, when you grow up in life, you actually saw it matters to people how you look.And then it matters to you because it matters to others.Why? Why does it matters 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 gonna be alone, that we’re not good enough.We’re going to change ourselves.You know so many people put me down and say “Nick, you look so weird！No one is really your friend. You can’t do this, You can’t do that.”And I couldn’t change anything, I couldn’t change /fix my hair one day and everything goes fine.It isn’t like you know 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 and legs.”You know what Imean like, I go to a body builder, you know, can you give me arms and legs.I’m joking. Hehe, Body builder cannot get it. Right ? I go up to people “can you give me a hand” you know I was joking.But It was so hard because people put me down.I started believing that I was not good enough.I started to believe that I was a failure, that I would never ever be somebody who people would like and people would accept.And it was so hard, man, I say to myself:”I can’t go on the soccer field like everybody else. I can’t ride my bike ,I can’t skateboardand all these sort of things .”I start getting depressed.I thought what kind of purpose I have to live, I just here to live to die? I mean.Isn't there a purpose for me ?Isn't there a purpose in life?And I have questions that are no answers. I asked my mom and dad why this happened. I asked doctor why did this happen. They don’t know.There is somethings in life that areout of your control, that you cannot change and you're going to live with.The choices we have,though, is either to give up or keep on going.I want to ask you what you’re gonna to believe?Are you going to believe in yourself?Are you going to believe everybody else 's judgement on you?Are you going to believe people when they say that you are a failure and no one really likes you. That no one really cares about you?Hey, I don’t mean that you don’t need someone who really come up and say to you “Hey, I really like you and care about you.” it is not really to say that you need somebody to come up to you. and say Hey. I really like you and I really care about you.No, it is not that, it is the fact that people put you down.People don’t even look you in the eye. People ask how you are and you say fine but actually you are not fine and they don’t know t hat, they never know that.I’ll tell you that life is interesting, life is a journey.See this phone here. Let’s say that I wanna go to the phone and I start from moving here. Now to get to the phone, it is not like I am going to start meditating（冥想）and going hum~~ ,right? And float across the air, right? It is not going to work.it is not like I’am going to go Hmm and wuu, It isnot going to work. 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. Because it is only one step at a time .You can’t do two steps in one, understand? So it is like one step at a time.You take stepsin this direction and you take steps in that direction. So you sort ofget lostalong the way and sometimes you fall down.To illustrate my point, I am gonna jump off the table and do a back twist and land on the floor. Ok, is that cool? Are you ready? There is a clock down there, can you move the clock away for a second? Beautiful, beautiful, all right, are you ready? Just let me know when you’re ready. Are you guys ready, Ok, 1,2,… I’m joking man. A re you serious？Please put the clock back there. If I did that I wouldbreak my arms or something, you know what I mean?But honestly, along the way you might fall down like this. Ready? Hello!So what will you do when you fall down? “Get back up!” everybody knows to get back up. Because if I start walking I am not going to get anywhere.But I tell you there are sometimes in life when you fall down, you feel like you don’t have the strength to get back up. So you sort of put a mask on your face when you come to school. Pretend that everything is OK when it is not. And you go home, layin your bedwhen no one is looking at you.You don’t have to impress anybody. You are yourself.And fear comes in. You know the fearthat you have as soon as you walk into the door of your house.Maybe it is a broken home. Maybe you have doubt in your life? Maybe you don’t know for sure what is gonna happen in the future and it scares you. Maybe worry about what people think of you, what people say about you.You see that fear will paralyze you.I just wanna ask you today “Do you think you have hope?”Because I tell you, I am down here, face down, and I have no arms and legs.It should be impossible for me to get back up.I mean when you go home and you tie the arms and legs of your brothers and sisters. And like push them down and see how long it is gonna take them to get back up. You know whatI mean. you can tell them “See you tomorrow”.Y ou know what I mean?But this is the thing- It should be impossible for me to get back up, but it is not.You see I will try one hundred times to get back up, and if I fail one hundred times if I fail and I give up, do you think I am ever gonnaget up? No. But if I fail, I try again, and again and again. For as long as I try, there is always that chance of me getting up. Does that make sense?It is not the end until you’ve given it up.And just the fact that you are here, it should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up. There is 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 or you’ve got aneating disorder. I don’t know h ow it feels to have a broken home. I don’t know how it feels.But I know how it feels with a broken heart and I know how it feels to be alone.And I want you to know that I found my strength in Jesus Chrisis.You’re gonna to find your strength in whatever you find it in.And I just want you to know that this is not the end, it matters that how you're gonna to finish it. Are you gonna 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 8, I used to concentrate onthe things I didn’t have.I wished I had arms and legs. I wished I could do this. But what can I do? You see I have a choice. That’s what we’re gonna to talk about today. Choices!!I can either be angry for not having arms and legs or be thankful for my little chicken drumsticks. You see I can still do a lot of things. At home I can brush my teeth, comb my hairs, get myself ready in the morning. I am traveling around the world. It is amazing!But I have to ask myself a couple of questions.And the first question is really “who am I? who am I? ” I am Nick Vujicic. But who is that? And it is funny that how the friends around you should determine who you are. You change yourself. You come to school and everybody swore around me in high school and I started swearing. Why? Because it is the cool thing to do.Everyone swears. So I don’t wanna be left out. And I wanna be accepted so I started swearing. You go to a party and everybody is drinking so you drink. Why? Everybody around me is doing it. Big deal! And you start losing yourself and you start putting you security in temporary things. You start putting your happiness in things that will not last.You can get drunk all your life, but in the morning , you gonna be sober with a headache, with the same problems.You wanna be high the rest of your life on drugs. Everybody says ‘Don’t do drugs’ why? Why even we go there? because out of curiosity orpeer pressure？Or try to escape reality. Basically, 3 things. That’s why we go todrugs, sex and alcohol. Why you do? Because it feels good.Ok, that is how we do it.I mean when you want something, you go get it.You wanna buy something, you save up money you go and get it.Why? Because that will make you happy.And we take these steps in the wrong direction and that will actually take you away from your dreams.don’t worry, Nick, drugs and alcohol will not take me away from my dreams and mypurposes and sex all that no! ”But I will tell you, it actually will.Because you go to a level of drinking and you go to level of drugs. It isn’t enough, you will find it out. Then y ou try something new. And you’ll also go to school and people will put you down.Parents will say that you’re a failure because you fail at a test.And you start to believe the lies around you. Saying that you’re not good enough, no one gonna want you and you never ever doing anything good in your life and you never ever achieve the dreams and goals that you wish you had done or wish that you could do.And it is the step that takes you closer to that voice saying ”you’re not good enough, you’re not good enough!” all you just need is one more step for the fall.See you have a choice, to know which step you’re gonna take today.Let me ask you “do you know who you are? You wanna know who I think you are?”You care about what your friends think who you are. You know you care about their opinion.Do you know who I am? You wanna know what I think who you are I will tell you right now.I didn’t car e how you look. Honestly, if you are 400kg, I am going to come up to you and give you a hug and say “I love you!”I don’t care if you’re fat short tall and thin I didn’t care. I really don’t care how you look. I don’t care what you good at ,I don’t care what you not good at. I don’t care if you like rock music or not. I don’t care! I don’t care you’re a good mathematican or good athlete or even not good at anything that you think…But I’m gonna come and tell you’re awesome just the way you are!I know so many teenagers who look at themselves in the mirror and wish that they have a different body. Girls, you’re beautiful just the way you are! You are gorgeous! You are gorgeous! I love you just the way you are! And the boys, you are the men!Because it is not how you look.When you see me for the first time, many of your feel 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 wanna be my friends? Of course ,you would. Why? Because you like who I am. But I have no arms and no legs and you gonna say, “So what?”So when you say “I have this or I don’t have that”, I am 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 heart. You can do something not just something you can do but you can live.life!Life is not always good, life is always not rozy.But life is worth living when you find purpose.“Nick, I don’t know what my purpose is. I don’t know! My parents want me to do this, my teachers want me to do that, my friends think I should do this.I really don’t know what to do ”And you’re tor n, man! You don’t know what to do. You have to make important decisions, man. You don’t know w hat to do. Who do you believe?Follow your heart.If that is what you wanna beIf that is what you wanna do in life, then walk to it.One day at a time.That phone might feel so far away, in fact, you might think that it is impossible for you to reach that. Let us say that the phone is all the way at the back of the room. How am I gonna get off this table, I can’t. How am I gonna get there? I can’t.But I want you to know that nothing is impossible.And if if it is impossible for your dream to come true. Le t’s say you wanna be a pilot but you can’t be a pilot for some reasons maybe your eyesight, maybe your height. I know somebody who couldn’t be a pilot. They are doing something now that they actually love to do.See all things come together for the good. That is how you see it in my life.You see it is nothing good about having no arms and no legs. And if, I you know, click my finger metaphorically speaking and your arms and legs just disappeared. Do you think you’d be happy with me? No ! You’d come run after me and head bump me, OK？Because it is nothing good having no limbs.But I love my life! Do you wanna know why? Because I have seen the purposes. Because I have no arms and no legs, you’re all listening to what I have to say.This is may be the most attentive you have been in any guest speaker that everybody else is boring and what would they know anyway. That is what you think, I know. Don’t worry. I was at a school too. And what do you know?I don’t care what many people had to say. They have no idea of what I am 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.Although all of a sudden now I’m seeing all of you here maybe for the first time.You believe in these words out of my mouth saying “I love you!” You don’t even know me but you actually believe that I do love you! You see it is an unconditional love.You don’t need to do anything for me to love you. I just love you, why? I don’t know, because I just love you, it’s love, 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, “Nick, I don’t know what to do. I wish I could do this but I don’t think this is gonna happen in my life. “ l et me tell you so many people come up to me and say “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 someb ody’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 a car and you die and get him(them) out away 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 you have a problem in your life and you wanna give up now. Imagine if someone 10 years older whose gone through same thing you have actually got through it. And he came to you and said “I know how it feels. I have been there. I have been going through what you are going through now, but I’m still here.”Will that not encourage you ? Could that possibly save your life? Yes, is that not a good purpose worth living for? And that is why I believe in you, because that is the greatest purpose in life. It is to love, honest. It soundscorny. Whatever you want say. I don’t care.I love people because there is freedom and power in loving people.You have a choice, everyday you come to school, to either tease 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 how they doing and they say OK, you know they are not OK and you could say “No really, how are you doing?”You can save somebody’s life.“Oh, really? Nick, I don’t think so. Check it out.”When I was 6 years old, grade 1, 12 people teased me. I counted them all with my fingers.12 people teased me!And at the end of the day, 10 to 3, in the afternoon, I said, “I can’t do this. if one more people teases me today, that’s it. I’m gonna give up.”And I am driving in my wheel chair my BMW7 series to parents, right ? And there is this is 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 wow~~The power of encouragement, you can save a person’s life.I tell you I was walking this way “You’re not good enough, peopletelling you no one loves you. there is nothing good in your life, you can’t do this, you can’t do that. No one is gonna to marry you and all these sort of things” and youget to the edge and all I neededwas that one more person to tell me that I was not good enough and I’ll be down there.Do you know you could be that one person for somebody else to push them over…You don’t know how many people have eating disorder in the school. You don’t know how many people want to hurt themselves in the s chool. They hide it. You don’t know how many people hate their lives.And you are one of the reasons. why. Can you image that?Seriously, why? Just because you want to have fun. Grow up, grow up!I dare this school not to tease other person at the rest of time.I dare you, do you think it is possible. People say “I won’t do it but everybody else will .”Be the change you wanna see. And you be that person and turn them around. This school should have every person having friends. You see somebody having no friends, why don’t you go up to that person and be their friend. Because you’re scared ofwhat people will think of you.Let us do it. Wake up! Embrace, man, let’s live!I love my life, nothing stop me! Am I happy all the time ? No! I’m not happy all the ti me. I’m not happy, I cry sometimes. Not because of no arms and no legs, that is easy. I’m talking about thing in life.. other things that I am stressed about, that I amanxious about it. The persons that I love, they hurt, and I cannot do anything about tha t. That’s what kills me !We’re all gone through something. We all try 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 learned by somebody else. Anything that anybody else learns you can actually learn.Make sense? Right? How do you know this is black? Because someone taught you it was black. Why? Because someone learned that this was black. And when you were able to learn you know this was black by someone teaching you.Nothing is really beyond your reach. Understand what I’m saying? But we’re not all good at math ,not all good at athletics…we are not good at maybe telling colors. Big deal. Findwhat you love to do.I love loving people, I love encouraging people. That is a great thing, it is the great business in the world. Saving people’s lives, love it.But not all gonna be speakers. Not all gonna be doing the same thing, that’d be crazy.What do you want do in your life ? Is there something more to your life? I have something more to my life and I believe it is God. If you wanna know him it is fine.I love you guys so much. Love you very much.Choices are yours.I make a choice to keep my virginity until I am married. Because it is proof beyond words that my wife was worth waiting for. Do we make wrong choices ,yes, we do. And are there consequencesfor bad choices? Yes. And I can talk another half an hour on consequence of drugs, sex and alcohol. No, I’m not here to lecture you.I’m not here to say not to do drugs, not to do all that stuff.But don’t believe you know everything either.“What I don’t know would not kill me”, right? T hat’s what they say. That is stupid. Hehh. How dumb is that? Let’s say I’ve got a brain tumor and I don’t know it. Is it gonna kill me still? Yeah.. idiot! Of course.Look at me and my life. I make choices and this is how I am. This is what I am. And I love it.You know it is cool. Sorry, just get the seat organized, that is better. Put my feet up.I’m gonna talk about my wife. I’m not married and I don’t know who my wife is yet. Right? It is OK. I know she is coming. Fine! She is coming.Girls, just because you don’t have boyfriends. it doesn’t mean that you’re not beautiful you’re not loved，you don’t need a boyfriend, you don’t need love, you don’t need to use your body as security to make you feel that someone need you.My wife is coming.And I may not have hands to hold my wife’s hands. But I don’t need hands to hold her heart, that is what I wanna hold.To tell you, a real man would wait. A real man wouldn’t put your life in danger.If you are not 100% sure that you’ll go together for the rest of your life. That is why I don’t have sex because I don’t know who I am gonna marry yet. Why sleep around w ith everybody else? It is so silly. Why? Just for temporary pleasure. No, man.It is beautiful to know that I’ve only shared with my girl. And I’m her guy. I love that. We’re gonna have children together, I know that. How can I hug my children when they are crying.I should get depressed that what kind of father am I gonna be? Check it out.There was a girl, she is so cute man, one of my friends’ daughters. She was, you know, 2 and a half old, she had this pink flowery hat and pink shoes on, she is about my height as well. And she came to hug everybody goodbye at the family function and she comes to me.I was sitting on the floor and she was looking at me. And I am like, cool? She is just staring at me and I am like OK…What can a 2 and a half years girl hon estly be thinking about? It is so weird and she looked at me for about 25 seconds and then she realizes something. It was little like bing~ you know. And she realized I had no arms to hug when she came up to hug me, she put her hands behind her back. And she hugged me with her neck.I know! Isn’t that more beautiful? So beautiful!Why am I here to tell you this I love you. That everything is gonna be OK.Not to say that I’m gonna to be with you everyday to tell you that.。