July 30, 2009

No arms? No legs? No Worries! 44

Some­times we feel like life is unfair.

From all the lit­tle things like the insane traf­fic to per­haps spilling cof­fee on your favorite shirt… to other things like work­ing long hours and wor­ry­ing about the unhealthy economy.

With so many things that get us wor­ried or upset, it’s no won­der that it’s so easy to feel like you’re always get­ting the short end of the stick. Like every­thing is out of control.

Well, this video of Nick Vuji­cic is a reminder that exter­nal fac­tor are exactly just that! EXTERNAL.

The power to get what we want, be it per­sonal or pro­fes­sional or finan­cial, lies INSIDE us. It should never mat­ter what the exter­nal sit­u­a­tion or the exter­nal econ­omy is like.

Are you fac­ing some exter­nal road­blocks that seem to be get­ting in the way of your goals? How did Nick inspire you then?

Talk more soon,

Brian

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44 Comments on “No arms? No legs? No Worries!” - Post your own?

Bala says 1 year ago

This is the uni­ver­sal eter­nal truth…

Catherine Shanahan says 1 year ago

Hi Nick, I just wanted to say, you freakin’ rock so much. I think we all get caught up in life at times and feel that it’s treat­ing us unfairly or some­times we can feel that noth­ing is going right for us — I loved your video and think you are such an inspi­ra­tion and you are an amaz­ing guy — wow — am going to get out there now and stop sweat­ing the small stuff and live my life to the fullest — thank you. Luv & Big Hugs. Cather­ine xx

Barbara says 1 year, 1 month ago

Wow that is most won­der­ful God Bless Nick you are an inspi­ra­tion to me thank-you for tak­ing the time to share who you are. Barbara

KEN MEAKIN says 1 year, 1 month ago

We all have this within us we just need to be able to express this innner self in a pos­tive way.

Elaine Haasbroek says 1 year, 1 month ago

Is Life Unfair? NO!!

Life isn’t unfair? Life is what each and every­one of us live. The sun shines on all of us and the rain falls on us too. The man­ner in which we react to what­ever hap­pens to us, is the life we cre­ate for ourselves.

Bless­ings
Elaine

Nomsa says 1 year, 1 month ago

What an inspi­ra­tion, thank you. Wow, Nick you are brilliant.

Samani Logara Dausabea Kali'uae says 1 year, 1 month ago

You deter­mine what future you want out of what decisions/actions you make in life NOW.

Cheers

Casey says 1 year, 1 month ago

Life IS what you make of it.

Lesley Oosterbroek says 1 year, 1 month ago

what an inspi­ra­tion Nick Vuji­cic is!

Jacky says 1 year, 1 month ago

I could’nt access the video, but ‚yeah.… I gen­er­ally think that life is unfair, but I must say I also realise that it’s what you put into it and the frame of mind you are in, that will deter­mine what you get out of it. Let’s face it, life will almost always hand you lemons and it’s your choice what you make out of it.

Rosemary says 1 year, 1 month ago

That’s unbe­liev­able” and Nick is so bet­ter than peo­ple with limbs he func­tions bet­ter, he has a bet­ter atti­tude to life and sees things dif­fer­ently to us because of his con­di­tion. We on the other hand with all our limbs can feel sorry for our­selves some­times, me more than most since I got health prob­lems. You watch some­thing like this and it can change your way of think­ing and give us strength to carry on for a while. Some of us will feel that “I don’t have a right to com­plain”, but I will for­get Nick and be back with my own self pitty because thats what my life is at the moment.I just want to get well

patsy says 1 year, 1 month ago

well, you always have choices; you can be a radi­a­tor, or a drainer. You can radi­ate great energy like Brian; improve your health, lengthen your life-span, enjoy your oppor­tu­ni­ties and see them as life-building and grow — and peo­ple, money, good health will be attracted to you. On the other hand you can drain energy; from peo­ple, sit­u­a­tions, money, oppor­tu­ni­ties and ulti­mately your­self.
Life is one big choice! Choose wisely :)

Richard says 1 year, 1 month ago

The only rea­son for any­thing and or every­thing, is hav­ing the concept.

It is impos­si­ble to have a thought, a judg­ment, an opin­ion with­out hav­ing the con­cept aka lan­guage to do so.

And as lan­guages have alter­na­tive con­cepts, there are also alter­na­tive realities.

It is the reflec­tions of one’s own thoughts which cre­ate the realty.

After all every­thing being energy, every­thing also has the qual­i­ties of energy. Being holo­graph­i­cal is such qual­ity.
The Eng­lish lan­guage fails to inte­grate this qual­ity, for one, in the concepts.

To become enlight­ened an find­ing one­self is los­ing one­self in every­thing. This is the only way.

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kenny says 1 year, 1 month ago

There was noth­ing wrong with that man. He is blessed and spreads his bless­ing onto oth­ers. His lack of limbs makes him stronger then most in mind and christ , bless you.

thanks you for shar­ing :) much appre­ci­ated XD

Sue says 1 year, 1 month ago

I think it’s unfair that I inher­ited my deep depres­sion
from a father I never knew.depression is a black hole you cant climed out of.My fathers dad took his own life.I am 46 I used to love life I just dont anymore.

Raifa says 1 year, 1 month ago

hello every­one! when i was asked that ques­tion wether life is fair or unfair i wasn’t really sure. if we think about some sit­u­a­tions in our life we might imme­di­ately say” Yes life IS unfair” but if we look at oth­ers we will say ” Life is FAIR” I think we must see things pos­i­tively and always see the bright side of even the most neg­a­tive, upset­ting frus­trat­ing events in our life. Ulti­mately, life is short so it can’t be unfair!

Juanita says 1 year, 1 month ago

That was incre­did­ble! Here I am wor­ried about what a friend was thik­ing about me when I found this site. I like how he says, “No wor­ries man“
“My Life with­out Limbs to a Life with­out Lim­its”. I love his energy.
The next time I start to won­der what is going to hap­pen next will thnk of Nick, move for­ward, be pos­i­tive, do, be, think, have any­thing. Thank-you Nick.

I’ll always be thank­ful that I have my limbs, yet, I had lim­its.
No, more.

Alexis Teo says 1 year, 1 month ago

Is God being fair enough?

Many times, peo­ple will be com­plain­ing the God is not being fair to them?
I have been think­ing about this for a long time. I truly believed God is not being fair enough to every­one. How­ever, I know peo­ple can cre­ate any­thing they want.… if they truly want.
I just read an e-book 5 min ago. It has totally waken me up and enlight­ened me that God is being fair to everyone.

This has enlight­ened me .…

You wake up in the morn­ing, and lo! Your purse is mag­i­cally filled with twenty four hours of the magic tis­sue of the uni­verse of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infi­nitely pre­cious com­modi­ties as much as you will, and the sup­ply will never be with­held from you. More­over, you can­not draw on the future. Impos­si­ble to get into debt. You can only waste the pass­ing moment. You can­not waste tomor­row. It is kept for you.” — Arnold Bennett

Suzi says 1 year, 1 month ago

Some of us in life are so hon­ored to Have the Nick’s as our chil­dren. I am 1 who is so hon­ored. My daugh­ter is 23 also & is a quadra­palegic. These are some of the most amaz­ing peo­ple & we, as par­ents are able to be reminded daily of how amaz­ing life is. I would love to meet his par­ents for I know they are also amaz­ing peo­ple to have raised such an extra­or­di­nary son. Thank you so much for bring­ing this to our atten­tion. Help­ing all to real­ize, life is just what you make it & the vic­tims are those who choose to be. Life is not unfair…it is life & mostly we are our own stum­bling blocks. I love his sto­ries of how chil­dren respond as they have not been con­di­tioned yet & they respond with such hon­esty!!! AWESOME VIDEO & GUY

Angela Krause says 1 year, 1 month ago

Who­ever told you life was fair? Thank god it’s not! For if it were, you might not have what you have!

Life is not fair or unfair. Life is life, and your life is yours to make of it as you wish.

Vince says 1 year, 1 month ago

Life is not fair, nei­ther is life unfair. Life is life. Good things hap­pen to good and bad peo­ple and bad things hap­pen to bad and good peo­ple. Matthew 5 V 45. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the right­eous and the unrighteous.

Fred Freitag says 1 year, 1 month ago

For the ego it seems that life is some­times unfair and it wants to blame, com­pare and jus­tify. The ego or con­scious mind deals with num­bers, van­ity and neg­a­tive emo­tions and is dri­ven by fear but this same mind is also our “tour guide” for our life in the phys­i­cal world and mon­i­tors our five senses.
When we change our point of view and dwell in the Spirit, things are as they are. We sur­ren­der to Love, Har­mony, Grat­i­tude and Faith and find new pur­pose to love our neigh­bor as our­selves. While our vibra­tion raises we’ll see the pur­pose of things and con­di­tions and see a new truth that raises our hopes and love towards all mankind: When Nick can be cheer­ful and hap­pily jok­ing, we find the Love that con­nects us all. God Bless You, Nick for show­ing us True Spir­i­tual Val­ues. You soar like an eagle.

Enoch says 1 year, 1 month ago

Life is never fair! You can say that, do noth­ing, believe it all your life to your death bed and noth­ing will change one bit. Or you could say it’s not fair but I am not going to take it lying down and if it’s up to me, I will do what­ever it takes to tip the bal­ance and make it fair to me, from my persepc­tive at least.

Shannon Looper says 1 year, 1 month ago

Fair or unfair is a judg­ment and a story in our minds. Life just is. Our Egos some­times want to play a game called vic­tim, then we start think­ing about fair/unfair. We can be ok with ‘what is so’, and keep on cre­at­ing from joy. :)

Kathlene says 1 year, 1 month ago

wow, how inspir­ing this great big guy is. We should all have our tongues cut out for com­plain­ing about the minor incon­ve­niences we suf­fer from time to time.

I com­plained about hav­ing no shoes until I saw a man with no feet. I com­plained I had no gloves until I saw a man with now arms.

Thank your for the share. He is a Real Man among men.

sara says 1 year, 1 month ago

to me, i still believe it’s unfair

he can make any action he want to do, and believe on it.

but i can’t!!
i’m stick here with dreams
that i can do what i really want to do in one day

it’s SO UNFAIR !!

Paul Haider says 1 year, 1 month ago

Many of us give up when we have 2 arms and 2 legs–we must have great peo­ple like this to remind us hour lucky we are… and how much courage we must have to move for­ward and help all of human­ity grow stronger and wiser so we can save our beau­ti­ful home–Planet Earth. — Dr. Paul Haider

saumya says 1 year, 1 month ago

some­times it is and some­times its not. for some peo­ple its just a life of mis­eries and suf­fer­ings and for some its a bed of roses it just depends on ur upbring­ing and cir­cum­stances one has to face in life.

Lucy says 1 year, 1 month ago

What an awe­some man. His atti­tude on life puts me to shame. I’ve always hated my legs, for being so gross, but I’m going to start using them to pro­pel me to where I want to go in life. No more excuses.

Araceli says 1 year, 1 month ago

Thanks for the uplift­ing story.

charlie drummond says 1 year, 1 month ago

Unfair,you must be kidding.….we only have one life and it’s there to be enjoyed.…so go and enjoy it..

Dr Marilyn, The Vitality Doctor says 1 year, 1 month ago

Thanks so much for shar­ing this Brian. A great reminder to really acknowl­edge and express grat­i­tude for the bless­ings we do have each day. I have enjoyed NIck and his story from the first time I saw him. And share his story when­ever pos­si­ble with every­one I know or come into con­tact with. Truly a remark­able exam­ple of what I teach my clients — that it is NOT what hap­pens to you in life that is impor­tant or sig­nif­i­cant, but how you relate to what hap­pens to you. And each of us has our own unique jour­ney and set of cir­cum­stances to learn and grow from as we travel this road called LIFE!

Hugs
Marilyn

Jaki daniel says 1 year, 1 month ago

was feel­ing down 2day..thanks..now feel­ing upbeat!!

Lillian says 1 year, 1 month ago

Thank Brian, it’s peo­ple like Brian that puts every­thing in perspective.

Life is what you choose to make of it, although I’m unem­ployed and hav­ing a tough time mak­ing ends meet, I’m thank­ful every­day for my fam­ily, our health and that we have a home to live in, food to eat and a safe place to sleep. I have seen many, many peo­ple who don’t have that and they con­tinue to forge ahead, and that’s whay I’m doing :-)

Donna says 1 year, 1 month ago

What an amaz­ing guy!! So inspi­ra­tional and what a sense of humour!

John says 1 year, 1 month ago

Well its make me feel so hum­ble and its broght tears to my eyes.
Such an inspi­ra­tion beyond words.
Thank So Much
John

Ger. Fleming says 1 year, 1 month ago

Life is not unfair. Life knows exactly what it is doing. My job is to live it.

Elizabeth says 1 year, 1 month ago

Life– is a gift, full of mir­a­cles.
We all can accept it as a won­der­ful thing.

Conrad says 1 year, 1 month ago

I dis­cov­ered Nick yes­ter­day on another site. Here is an addi­tional video from Nick that I didn’t see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQPmY4nIjVE

This man is so inspi­ra­tional ! A true brother in Christ who can teach us all !

God Bless ! Conrad.

Nancy Houseman says 1 year, 1 month ago

That was a great video. I was wish­ing it would con­tinue. It has got to be
great for all invalid peo­ple to see.

CJ Brehme says 1 year, 1 month ago

No life is not unfair, it is what it is meant to be, a learn­ing and grow­ing expe­ri­ence. For most it is a defy­ing expe­ri­ence and com­plete dis­re­gard of the Uni­ver­sal Law of Cause and Effect.

Rita says 1 year, 1 month ago

This shows us how resil­ianat the human spirit is! This must have hap­pened so Nick could wit­ness to those who needed inspi­ra­tion and courage from his con­di­tion.
Thank you for sharing.

Angela says 1 year, 1 month ago

Wow…how can I ever feel sorry for myself or have a ‘woe is me’day again? Thanks Brian. Great video! Angela :-)

valeen says 1 year, 1 month ago

He is very funny and smart.

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