Motivational Speech English | Thanawiyyah | Sibaq '22 Darul Huda National Arts Fest — Transcript

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1. 0:13As-salamu alaykum warahmatullahi ta'ala
2. 0:15wabarakatuh.
3. 0:17I was an athlete.
4. 0:20Sorry, I'm still an athlete. Don't look
5. 0:22at that.
6. 0:23I'm quite good on football. I have my
7. 0:25tight positions. I sprint well. I play
8. 0:27hockey, basketball, baseball,
9. 0:29volleyball, everything. But no with
10. 0:31those who are disabled. Why should I?
11. 0:34I'm not disabled. I'm differently abled.
12. 0:36When I was nine, I lost my legs on a car
13. 0:39crash. I was so devastated. My legs, it
14. 0:42was that important to me. My legs, it
15. 0:44was my future. And people who came to
16. 0:47see me tell me, "Oh kid, how can he play
17. 0:49again? How can he sprint again? He was
18. 0:51such a nice athlete." And I was like,
19. 0:54"Why am I even alive? I should have died
20. 0:56on that day." Not because of my legs or
21. 0:58because of my future. Who am I today?
22. 1:01They looked me, talked me, called me as
23. 1:03I was disabled. I was so irritated. And
24. 1:07my mother, she used to say, "You aren't
25. 1:09disabled. You're differently abled.
26. 1:11Everyone are different on their
27. 1:12abilities." And I was like, "Mhm." My
28. 1:15parents, they loved me like crazy. They
29. 1:17used to say, "You got to try. Try this,
30. 1:20try that, try this, try that." And I was
31. 1:21like, "Mom, Dad, are you crazy, man? I
32. 1:23don't have my legs to do." They
33. 1:25encouraged me and I started trying. Then
34. 1:28I understood that disability is a
35. 1:30disagreement of mind. I'm not disabled.
36. 1:33I'm differently abled. I kept my word
37. 1:36myself beyond every struggles, shame,
38. 1:39and status. I will be an athlete
39. 1:41someday. It was so hard. It was so hard,
40. 1:45but I walked up, walked up, stretching
41. 1:47my boots on my artificial legs. I
42. 1:49started to dream again. There were no
43. 1:51weakness on my hearts. No one, no one
44. 1:54could deny or defy me. Defeat and
45. 1:56retreat, those words in my words. I
46. 1:58don't know those definitions. I I was
47. 2:00too born to conquer.
48. 2:03I refuse to participate on Paralympic
49. 2:05Games. Why should I? I'm not different.
50. 2:07My desire was to play with the normal
51. 2:10guy. Of course I did it.
52. 2:11And when I I did, I failed. But when I I
53. 2:14failed, I wasn't failing actually. I was
54. 2:17winning.
55. 2:18I ran behind them. I ran with them. And
56. 2:21finally I ran ahead of them. Who am I?
57. 2:24From locals to regions and from regions
58. 2:27to districts, from districts to states
59. 2:29and from states to the national
60. 2:30championship. Who am I? And no one, and
61. 2:34nobody with no legs became the national
62. 2:36champion of 100 m racing.
63. 2:40You got to be crazy, bro. I had made a
64. 2:42history which was untold over the
65. 2:44imaginary minds of our people. It was
66. 2:46beyond the imaginations.
67. 2:48Who am I? Maybe I stand in front of you
68. 2:50without my legs, but a very strong man
69. 2:53because of my bad days in my life.
70. 2:56If you hadn't gone through what you have
71. 2:57gone through, you won't be who you are
72. 3:00today.
73. 3:01And today the one with arms and legs are
74. 3:03more disabled than I.
75. 3:05Not because of their arms and legs,
76. 3:06because of their minds and hearts. I
77. 3:09have conquered my world and you're still
78. 3:12understanding us. There are a lot of
79. 3:14scientists, doctors, presidents of
80. 3:16nations,
81. 3:18Nobel Prize winners, Stephen Hawking,
82. 3:20scientist who discovered Big Bang
83. 3:21Theory, Helen Keller deaf and blind at
84. 3:23the age of 19, but the first graduate
85. 3:25with deafness and blind, Franklin D.
86. 3:27Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the
87. 3:29United States, legs being paralyzed by
88. 3:31polio disease, but he led his nation
89. 3:33successfully through the Great
90. 3:35Depression and the Second World War.
91. 3:36Nick, the one with no arms and legs, but
92. 3:39the best motivational speaker in the
93. 3:40world. Who are you and what your value
94. 3:42is? Who are you and what your value is?
95. 3:45You have to work hard. One day the world
96. 3:47and the day of marriage people applaud
97. 3:48to us. For that, we have to believe in
98. 3:51ourself. We are indisabled. We are
99. 3:54differently abled. We are still and
100. 3:56always blessed on our abilities.
101. 3:59They may see your disability, but you
102. 4:03have to show your ability. Thank you.
103. 4:06Salaam Alaikum.