"Ever since I was a kid, the burning desire in me was to do what everyone else could do."
Limbless evangelist Nick Vujicic made this statement in the recent TLC documentary called "Born Without Limbs," where he was seen driving a car for the very first time.
Driving a car might seem easy for most people, but it's a completely different ballpark for Vujicic, an Australian man born with Tetra-amelia syndrome, a condition where all four limbs are absent. Because of this, Vujicic suffered from depression and fear when he was young and even contemplated suicide several times.
"Everyone is looking for something to make them happy—money, drugs, alcohol. I wanted to know I was not just a write-off. Every time a kid laughed at me or excluded me from a game, that fear came back," he said.
However, he later found God and turned his life around by working as a motivational speaker. Vujicic now resides in California and is happily married to Kanae. They have a two-year-old son named Kiyoshi and another baby boy on the way.
To help Vujicic fulfill his dream of driving a car, a US company fitted out a car for him so he could attempt to drive by just using his mouth and prosthetics. His wife Kanae was pretty pleased to be in the passenger's seat for the first time since this gives her more time to do her make-up. But her happiness was nothing compared to what Vujici felt after taking the car out for a spin.
"I can't believe I just drove! That was surreal," he said with a huge smile on his face.
Vujicic hopes that his story will inspire other people not to give up even though they are faced with impossible situations. "We sometimes wait for a miracle to happen in life—but the miracle never comes. I wish many things were different in my life. But knowing I can be a miracle for someone else makes my life worth living," he said in the documentary. "We all have worries. I am not a superhero. But I embrace life and focus on what is most important."
