When God closes a door, he also opens a window for man, and this phrase is effective for many people with disabilities and has become a motto that people never give up. There are many successful people with physical disabilities in inspirational stories, who, despite their physical disabilities, have amazing perseverance and courage in their spirits.
In Australia, there is a disabled man named Nick who was born without limbs, and such a person is a problem to survive, not to mention high achievements. But it was such a person who could only express himself with his mouth, who inspired countless people by his own eloquence and was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, not only that, he also married an Asian girl, and his wife gave birth to four children for him.
Along the way, what did Nick do to overcome the mental blow of physical disability and being different from others? What kind of inspirational life does he have?
A tragic twist of fate
In 1982, Nick was born into an ordinary family in Melbourne, Australia, and when doctors induced him to give birth, a scene that shocked everyone present occurred: the newborn had no limbs, the only limb he had was a small foot with only two toes under his left hip.
The crippled baby suffered from seal limbism, the source of which was that the baby's mother had taken a drug called "reaction stop" during pregnancy, which deformed the fetus and made the child born with limb mutilation or limb connection.
The condition was discovered in the 1960s, and the side effects of the drug led to the birth of hundreds of thousands of seal acrometic children, and after the source of the disease was found, the drug was immediately banned from production.
Nick was born 20 years after the incident, his mother was a hospital nurse, knowledgeable about medicine, impossible to access similar drugs, and Nick's parents were on all fours, so Nick's physical disability was a devastating blow to the family.
After learning the news, Nick's parents suffered for a long time before choosing to accept the reality, their children are physically disabled, and the most painful thing is the parents.
Fortunately, the couple soon came out of the pain, and the couple was determined to raise the child and give him the love and education that a normal child would have.
Nick, who has no limbs, can't do anything, and the foot he calls "chicken leg" becomes his only tool, and when Nick was young, his father taught him to type with his toes, and his mother made a pen for him and taught him to write with a pen sandwiched between his only two toes.
Although Nick has a disability, his parents do not want him to lose his right to education, so when Nick is 8 years old, his parents finally find a primary school for him after looking around.
Young children do not hide the evil in their hearts, so laughing and bullying the disabled Nick all day becomes the greatest pleasure of the students, Nick has experienced a long period of school violence in school, but he can not resist with his body, and verbal resistance is also very small.
The child was humiliated by unacceptable humiliation, and his young mind was almost destroyed by endless insults, so Nick began to yearn for death, and repeatedly sought suicide when his parents were not at home.
Nick tried to drown himself in the bathtub at home, but the nature of life and the love for his parents stopped Nick, and after constant struggle, Nick slowly floated on the water, exhausted, he began to think about the meaning of life, and since then indulged in this thinking.
The growth path of breaking through the cocoon into a butterfly
The devastated person has only two endings, one is to fall into depravity due to the torture of fate, and the other is to be tortured but to die, and Nick chose the latter.
During his long upbringing, Nick began to find meaning in life, realizing that his life experiences could infect and motivate everyone who was physically sound but mentally unscathed to be positive, and that he should not waste his good life on dissipating the insults that others had placed on him.
After entering the middle school, few of the students who received the quality education insulted Nick, and although there were still some people who tried to hit him, Nick no longer paid attention to these meaningless words.
On the road of Nick's growth, the encouragement and support of his parents was undoubtedly the most important factor in his survival, Nick not only began to learn swimming and diving and other sports, but also actively participated in activities in school, and successfully elected the president of the student council through his infectious speeches.
The success of the speech made Nick see the direction of his future development, he thought that he could make a living on his own eloquence, and he could also use his own strength to inspire everyone. At the age of 19, Nick began calling schools and asking them to give him the opportunity to speak for his students.
At first, no school was willing to accept this disabled person, but Nick had long been accustomed to blows, and after more than fifty failures, finally a school was willing to accept him, and this 5-minute speech would make Nick 50 yuan.
At the beginning of the speech, the students present laughed when they saw the disabled Nick, and Nick did not hide his physical disability, and he even joked to everyone. As the speech progressed, Nick recounted his experiences of being ridiculed and attempting suicide as a child, but he chose to continue to live an active life.
Nick's experience turned the students from laughter to sympathy at first, and in the end, the students were touched by Nick's spirit, and some students wept because of it, and this speech that far exceeded the planned time touched everyone present.
At the end of the speech, there was a fierce applause from the field, and some people even took the initiative to take a group photo with Nick to sign.
Everyone has a future
Nick has since started his speech career, in every speech, Nick always infects everyone in the scene with funny words, and people can admire the strength of the spirit of this limb-mutilated person.
Nick, whose career was in full swing, did not give up his studies, and he graduated from college with a double bachelor's degree by his strong will.
Not only that, but Nick also published books and video materials, and his deeds spread from Australia to all over the world, and many famous schools around the world began to invite him to speak.
Among them, many universities in Chinese mainland invited Nick to speak, and Nick's story has since spread in China, and he has become a positive role model for more and more people.
In addition to the success of his career, Nick is also very passionate about public affairs, he is not only very concerned about the growth of children with the same disabilities as him, but also presides over various jobs for them, and Nick has given more than 1500 public service speeches around the world.
In 2012, Nick harvested love, he married his Japanese girlfriend, the couple had a sweet life, and his wife gave birth to four children for him, each of which was healthy.
In Nick's view, people are never fair, but everyone has the right to pursue fairness, and it is precisely because Nick believes in this concept and keeps it consistent that he has achieved today's success, and his inspirational story will affect more and more people.