Some people just keep inspiring me. Nick Vujicic is certainly one of them. His story is so unique and so full of life. I was looking for something I heard him say and found myself on the page: http://www.attitudeisaltitude.com/about-nick-his-story
It said:
A janitor at my high school inspired me to start speaking about my faith and overcoming adversity when I was seventeen. I spoke only a dozen times to very small groups over the next two years. Then I found myself in front of three hundred sophomore (grade 10) students and I was very nervous. My knees were shaking. Within the first three minutes of my talk, half the girls were crying, and most of the boys were struggling to hold their emotions together. One girl in particular was sobbing very hard. We all looked at her and she put her hand up.
She said, “I am so sorry to interrupt, but can I come up and hug you?”
She came hugged me in front of everyone, and whispered in my ear, “Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one has ever told me that they loved me and that I am beautiful the way I am.” Her gratitude inspired me to go across 44 countries and speak 2,000 times. I realized that we all need love and hope and that I was in a unique position to share that with people around the world.
We need to tell people more often that they are gorgeous just the way they are! And another proof that embracing is wonderful: to feel it, to see it in action or just read about it… She felt so embraced and he surely did as well and it encouraged him to go out an embrace thousands more people.
It can all start with just a single simple question. Can I hug you? Honestly who can refuse?
