Learn English with Muniba Mazari in an inspirational and motivational speaker. With remarkable quotes: We all are Perfectly Imperfect" and "Don't Die Before Your Death" she touches our heart. Muniba Mazari is a Pakistani artist, model, activist, motivational speaker, singer, and television host. She uses a wheelchair due to injuries sustained in a car accident at the age of 21 which makes her Pakistan's first wheelchair-using model. She is also the National Ambassador for UN Women Pakistan - Watch with English Subtitles.
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00:00I'm running short of words right now, but I cannot afford this because I have to speak.
00:22Thank you so much for all the love, for all the warmth.
00:27Thank you for accepting me.
00:31Thank you very much.
00:34Well, I always start my talk with a disclaimer, and that disclaimer is that I've never claimed
00:48to be a motivational speaker.
00:49Yes, I do speak, but I feel more like a storyteller because wherever I go, I share a story with
00:56everyone.
00:57Well, it is a story of a woman whose perfectly imperfect life made her who and what she is
01:06today.
01:09It's the story of a woman who, in pursuit of her dreams and aspirations, made other
01:14people realize that if you think that your life is hard and you're giving up on that
01:19because you think your life is unfair, think again.
01:26Because when you think that way, you are being unfair to your own self.
01:32It's the story of a woman who made people realize that sometimes problems are not too
01:38big.
01:40We are too small because we cannot handle them.
01:52It is the story of a woman who, with time, realized that real happiness doesn't lie in
01:58success, money, fame.
02:03It lies within.
02:06Real happiness lies in gratitude.
02:10So I am here, and I'm going to share the story of that woman.
02:16That is my story, the story of gratitude.
02:31I love you too.
02:32I love you all.
02:36I believe in the power of words.
02:40Many people speak before they think, but I know the value of words.
02:44The words can make you, break you, they can heal your soul, they can damage you forever.
02:49So I always try to use the positive words in my life wherever I go.
02:54They call it adversity, I call it opportunity.
02:56They call it weakness, I call it strength.
02:59They call me disabled, I call myself differently abled.
03:03They see my disability.
03:09They see my disability, I see my ability.
03:13There are some incidents that happen in your life, and those incidents are so strong that
03:21they change your DNA.
03:25Those incidents or accidents are so strong that they break you physically.
03:30They deform your body, but they transform your soul.
03:38Those incidents break you, deform you, but they mold you into the best version of you.
03:47And the same thing happened to me.
03:50And I'm going to share what exactly happened to me.
03:54I was 18 years old when I got married.
03:57And this thing I'm sharing for the very first time on an international level.
04:01I was 18 years old when I got married.
04:03I belonged to a very conservative family, a Baloch family, where good daughters never
04:08say no to their parents.
04:11My father wanted me to get married.
04:13And all I said was, if that makes you happy, I'll say yes.
04:17And of course, it was never a happy marriage.
04:22Just about after two years of getting married, about nine years ago, I met a car accident.
04:33Somehow my husband fell asleep, and the car fell in the ditch.
04:41He managed to jump out, saved himself.
04:43I'm happy for him.
04:45But I stayed inside the car, and I sustained a lot of injuries.
04:51The list is a bit long.
04:52Don't get scared.
04:53I'm perfectly fine now.
04:55Radius ulna of my right arm were fractured.
05:00The wrist was fractured.
05:03Shoulder bone and collar bone were fractured.
05:05My whole rib cage got fractured.
05:08And because of the rib cage injury, lungs and liver were badly injured.
05:14I couldn't breathe.
05:17I lost urinal bowel control.
05:19That's why I have to wear the bag wherever I go.
05:24But that injury that changed me and my life completely as a person, and my perception
05:29towards living my life, was the spine injury.
05:33Three vertebrae of my backbone were completely crushed, and I got paralyzed for the rest
05:38of my life.
05:41So this accident took place in a far-flung area in the outskirts of a very small province,
05:47in Balochistan, where there was no first aid, no hospital, no ambulance.
05:53I was in the middle of nowhere, in that toppled car.
05:58Many people came to rescue.
05:59They gave me CPR.
06:01They dragged me out of the car.
06:03And while they were dragging me out, I got the complete transection of my spondyl cord.
06:10And now there was this debate going on, should we keep it here?
06:13She's going to die.
06:14Where should we go?
06:15There is no ambulance.
06:18And there was this four-wheeler jeep standing in the corner of the street.
06:20They said, put her in the back of the jeep and take her to the hospital, which is three
06:25hours away from this place.
06:29And I still remember that bumpy ride.
06:31I was all broken.
06:34They threw me at the back of the jeep, and they rushed me to the hospital.
06:37That is where I realized that my half body was fractured, and half was paralyzed.
06:45I finally ended up in a hospital where I stayed for two and a half months.
06:51I underwent multiple surgeries.
06:54Doctors have put a lot of titanium in my arm.
06:57There's a lot of titanium at my back to fix my back.
07:00That's why people in Pakistan call me the Iron Lady of Pakistan.
07:11Sometimes I wonder how easy it is for me to describe all this all over again.
07:16And somebody has rightly said that when you share your story and it doesn't make you cry,
07:22that means you have healed.
07:30Those two and a half months in the hospital were dreadful.
07:36I will not make up stories just to inspire you.
07:38I was at the verge of despair.
07:42One day a doctor came to me, and he said, well, I heard that you wanted to be an artist,
07:47but you ended up being a housewife.
07:49I have bad news for you.
07:52You won't be able to paint again because your wrist and your arm are so deformed, you won't
07:56be able to hold a pen again.
07:59And I stayed quiet.
08:02Next day a doctor came to me and said, your spine injury is so bad, you won't be able
08:08to walk again.
08:11I took a deep breath and I said, it's all right.
08:15The next day a doctor came to me and said, because of your spine injury and the fixation
08:21that you have in your back, you won't be able to give birth to a child again.
08:28That day I was devastated.
08:31I still remember, I asked my mother, why me?
08:39And that is where I started to question my existence.
08:42Why am I even alive?
08:44What's the point of living?
08:46I cannot walk.
08:47I cannot paint.
08:48Fine.
08:49I cannot be a mother.
08:51And we have this thing in our heads, being women, that we are incomplete without having
08:56children.
08:57I am going to be an incomplete woman for the rest of my life.
09:00What's the point?
09:01People are scared.
09:02They think I will get divorced.
09:05What is going to happen to me?
09:07Why me?
09:08Why am I alive?
09:10We all try to chase this tunnel.
09:13We all do this because we see light in the end of the tunnel, which keeps us going.
09:19My dear friends, in my situation, there was a tunnel that I had to roll on, but there
09:24was no light.
09:28And that is where I realized that the words have the power to heal the soul.
09:34My mother said to me, this too shall pass.
09:40God has a greater plan for you.
09:42I don't know what it is, but He surely has.
09:55In all that distress and grief, somehow or the other, those words were so magical that
09:59they kept me going.
10:02I was trying to put that smile on my face all the time, was hiding.
10:07It was so hard to hide the pain, which was there.
10:11But all I knew was that if I will give up, my mother and my brothers will give up too.
10:16I cannot see them crying with me.
10:19So what kept me going was, one day I asked my brothers, I know I have a deformed hand,
10:27but I'm tired of looking at these white walls in the hospital and wearing these white scrubs.
10:32I'm getting tired of this.
10:34I want to add more colors to my life.
10:35I want to do something.
10:37Bring me some colors.
10:38Bring me some small canvas.
10:39I want to paint.
10:42So the very first painting I made was on my deathbed, where I painted for the very first
10:48time.
10:52It was not just an art piece or just my passion.
10:56It was my therapy.
10:58What an amazing therapy it was.
11:00Without uttering a single word, I could paint my heart out.
11:04I could share my story.
11:06People used to come and say, what lovely painting, so much color.
11:11Nobody could see the grief in it.
11:13Only I could.
11:16So that's how I spent two and a half months in my hospital, crying, never complaining
11:21or whining, but painting.
11:24And then I was discharged, and I went back home.
11:28And I went back home, and I realized that I have developed a lot of pressure ulcers
11:32on my back and on my hip bone.
11:34I was unable to sit.
11:37There were a lot of infections in my body, a lot of allergies.
11:40The doctors wanted me to lie down on the bed straight for not six months, for not one
11:47year.
11:48For two years, I was bedridden, confined in that one room, looking outside the window,
11:57listening to the birds chirping, and thinking maybe there will be a time when we'll be going
12:01out with the family and enjoying the nature.
12:06That was the time where I realized how lucky people are, but they don't realize.
12:17That is the time where I realized that the day I'm going to sit, I'm going to share this
12:23pain with everyone to make them realize how blessed they are, and they don't even consider
12:28them lucky.
12:32There are always turning points in your life.
12:37There was a rebirth day that I celebrated.
12:43After two years and two and a half months, when I was able to sit on a wheelchair, that
12:49was the day when I had the rebirth.
12:53I was a completely different person.
12:55I still remember the day I sat on the wheelchair for the first time, knowing that I'm never
12:59going to leave this, knowing that I won't be able to walk for the rest of my life.
13:04I saw myself in the mirror, and I talked to myself, and I still remember what I said.
13:13I cannot wait for a miracle to come and make me walk.
13:17I cannot sit in the corner of the room crying, cribbing, and begging for mercy because nobody
13:21has time.
13:24So I have to accept myself the way I am, the sooner the better.
13:29So I applied the lip color for the first time.
13:38And I erased it, and I cried, and I said, what am I doing?
13:44A person on a wheelchair should not do this.
13:48What will people say?
13:50Clean it up.
13:51Put it again.
13:53This time I put it for myself because I wanted to feel perfect from within.
14:06And that day I decided that I'm going to live life for myself.
14:11I am not going to be that perfect person for someone.
14:14I am just going to take this moment and I will make it perfect for myself.
14:20And you know how it all began?
14:22That day I decided that I'm going to fight my fears.
14:26We all have fears.
14:28Fear of unknown, fear of known, fear of losing people, fear of losing health, money.
14:37We want to excel in career.
14:38We want to become famous.
14:39We want to get money.
14:40We are scared all the time.
14:42So I wrote down one by one all those fears, and I decided that I'm going to overcome these
14:48fears one at a time.
14:50You know what was my biggest fear?
14:54Divorce.
14:56I couldn't stand this word.
14:59I was trying to cling on to this person who didn't want me anymore, but I said no.
15:05I have to make it work.
15:07But the day I decided that this is nothing but my fear, I liberated myself by setting
15:13him free.
15:14And I made myself emotionally so strong that the day I got the news that he is getting
15:19married, I sent him a text that I'm so happy for you and I wish you all the best.
15:25And he knows that I pray for him today.
15:34My biggest fear, number two, was I won't be able to be a mother again.
15:41And that was quite devastating for me.
15:44But then I realized there are so many children in the world, all they want is acceptance.
15:49So there is no point of crying, just go and adopt one.
15:53And that's what I did.
16:04I gave my name in different organizations, different orphanages.
16:08I didn't mention that I'm on a wheelchair, dying to have a child.
16:13So I just told them that this is Muneeba Mazari and she wants to adopt a boy or girl whatsoever,
16:17but I want to adopt a kid.
16:19And I waited patiently.
16:21Two years later, I got this call from a very small city in Pakistan.
16:25I got a call and they said, are you Muneeba Mazari?
16:27There is a baby boy and would you like to adopt?
16:32And when I say yes, I could literally feel the labor pain.
16:35I said, yes, yes, I am going to adopt him.
16:38I am coming to take him home.
16:46And when I reached there, the man was sitting and he was looking at me from head to toe.
16:52And in back of my head, I kept thinking that, oh my God, he is going to say she's on the
16:56wheelchair, she doesn't deserve it.
16:59How is she going to take care of him?
17:01And I looked at him and I said, do not judge me because I'm on the wheelchair.
17:04But you know what he said?
17:07He said, I know you will be the best mother of this child.
17:10You both are lucky to have each other.
17:18And that day, I was two years old, two days old, and today he's six.
17:31You will be surprised to know another bigger fear that I had in me.
17:35It was facing people.
17:37I used to hide myself from people.
17:40When I was on bed for two years, I used to keep the door closed.
17:43I used to pretend that I'm not going to meet anyone, tell them that I'm sleeping.
17:48You know why?
17:50Because I couldn't stand that sympathy that they had for me.
17:53They used to treat me like a patient.
17:56When I used to smile, they used to look at me and say that, you're smiling, are you okay?
18:00I was tired of this question being asked, are you sick?
18:04Well, a lady yesterday at the airport asked me, are you sick?
18:07And I said, well, besides the spinal cord injury, I'm fine, I guess.
18:18But those are really cute questions.
18:20They never used to feel cute when I was on the bed.
18:23So I used to hide myself from people, knowing that, oh my God, I'm not going to see that
18:27sympathy in their eyes.
18:29It's all right.
18:30And today I'm here speaking to all these amazing people because I have overcome the fear.
18:45You know, when you end up being on the wheelchair, what's the most painful thing?
18:50That's another fear that people on the wheelchair or the people who are differently abled have
18:54in their hearts, but they never share.
18:55I'll share that with you.
18:57The lack of acceptance.
18:59People think that they will not be accepted by other people because we, in the world of
19:04perfect people, are imperfect.
19:07So I decided that instead of starting an NGO for disability awareness, which I know will
19:11not help anyone, I started to appear more in public.
19:16I started to paint.
19:17I always wanted to.
19:19I have done a lot of exhibitions.
19:21I'm Pakistan's first wheelchair-bound artist.
19:23I have done a lot of modeling campaigns, different campaigns for brands like Tony and Guy.
19:33I have done some really funny breaking the barriers kind of modeling.
19:39There was this one by the name Clown Town where I became a clown because I know that
19:44clowns have hearts too.
19:47And then I also decided that if I really want to make the difference, I am not going to
19:53let people use me for their polio campaigns where they will make you a victim and an emblem
19:59of misery and mercy and will say that, you know what, give polio drops to your children
20:03or they'll become like this girl.
20:05I decided that I'm going to join the national TV of Pakistan as an anchor person.
20:09And I've been doing a lot of shows for the last three years.
20:21So when you accept yourself the way you are, the world recognizes you.
20:26It all starts from within.
20:29I became, thank you, I became the national goodwill ambassador for UN Women Pakistan
20:35and now I speak for the rights of women children.
20:38We talk about inclusion, diversity, gender equality, which is a must.
20:44I was featured in BBC 100 Women for 2015.
20:47I am one of the Forbes 30 under 30 for 2016 and it all didn't happen alone.
20:58You all are thriving in your careers.
21:01You have bigger dreams and aspirations in life.
21:03Always remember one thing.
21:05On the road to success, there is always we, not me.
21:12Do not think that you alone can achieve things.
21:15No.
21:16There is always another person who is standing behind you, maybe not coming on the forefront
21:21but behind you, praying for you and supporting you.
21:25Never lose that person, never.
21:34No matter how much I say that I couldn't find a hero so I became one, I still want
21:40to recognize those three people in my life who literally changed my life completely and
21:45I get inspiration from them every single day.
21:50Waleed Khan.
21:54Many people know about the terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
21:58We have lost many people and I'm sharing this with a very heavy heart because we actually
22:04have lost a lot of people in this huge turmoil of terrorism.
22:10These people are barbarians.
22:12They do not see people.
22:15They're even worse than animals.
22:17They have killed people in mosques.
22:19They have killed people in churches, temples, even in schools.
22:24There was this terrorist attack in Army Public School, Peshawar, where these terrorists
22:31entered in an examination hall and they killed our children.
22:38And in that attack, that day, this beautiful boy, Waleed Khan, who was my hero, my real
22:44life hero, was the proctor who was taking care of the students, was keeping an eye on
22:50the students.
22:52Those barbarians shot him three times in the face, five times on his body and he fell down.
23:00I was asked to give a talk in the school after a week of that terrorist attack.
23:05With a very heavy heart, I went there and I spoke.
23:08We sang a few national songs.
23:10I thought that maybe I've done my part, but deep inside, it was killing me.
23:15I could see children injured.
23:17I could see children sitting on the wheelchairs looking at me wondering, what next?
23:24What was our fault?
23:25Just because we were here to give examination, we have been shot.
23:29So many people, so many children lost their friends.
23:33Their classrooms were empty the next day they went to the classroom.
23:37So this kid, Waleed Khan, I was asked that he is in a hospital right now and you have
23:43to go and see him and motivate him and tell him that it's going to be okay.
23:49And when I saw Waleed Khan coming on the wheelchair for the first time in front of me, face was
23:55all deformed.
23:58His leg was fractured, his arm was fractured.
24:00He couldn't talk.
24:01He lost his teeth.
24:03He cannot sneeze.
24:04He cannot smell.
24:07He cannot eat.
24:10And I kept thinking, what should I say?
24:14That everything is going to be all right?
24:16No.
24:17Nothing is all right.
24:19And while I was juggling with the words what to say, what not to say, this beautiful child,
24:23Waleed Khan, came to me and he said, are you Muneeba Mazari?
24:27I said, yes.
24:30He said, Baji, let's take a selfie.
24:33And with that beautiful toothless smile of Waleed Khan, we took that beautiful selfie
24:46that I still have with me.
24:49I don't share that here because he was in a very bad shape that time.
24:53And that is where I realized that when I was thinking too much about his deformities, he's
24:59happy with himself.
25:00He doesn't even care.
25:03Because today he goes in the same school and when somebody asks him that what happened
25:08to your face, why so many scars, you know what he says?
25:12These scars are my medals and I wear them with pride.
25:27And how beautifully he says the terrorists wanted me not to study.
25:30I am going to study.
25:31I will become a doctor one day and this is my way of taking revenge from those terrorists.
25:42Another real life hero, of course, my son.
25:45His name is Nile, N-I-L-E, River Nile.
25:51I learned so much from this kid.
25:54The first and foremost thing is patience.
25:58How to be patient when you know that your mother cannot walk, when you know that your
26:03mother is different from the other women, when you know that your mother cannot go out
26:08and play with you, how to stay calm.
26:11He loves football.
26:14And when we got the very first football, he was four years old.
26:17He was super excited.
26:19I still remember he came in the room and he said, mom, let's play football.
26:24And he kept the ball in my feet.
26:27And he said, let's kick it.
26:30And that day I felt disabled.
26:34I said I cannot kick the ball.
26:37And I was down with the same face.
26:40He looked at me and he said, well, that's all right.
26:42Your legs are not working, but your hands do.
26:45Let's play catch the ball.
26:56You know, with that day, he made me realize that when you think your glass is half empty,
27:00come on, your glass is half full.
27:03It's all in here and here.
27:09Last but not least, the woman who made me realize that heroes have no gender.
27:17The woman who believed in me, even when I was completely at the verge of despair, where
27:23everybody left.
27:25She was there.
27:27And every time I looked at her without saying anything, she used to look at me and said
27:31this too shall pass.
27:33God has a bigger plan.
27:35And one day you will say that, oh, my God, that is why God has chosen me.
27:40She never cried in front of me.
27:42She has always said that there will be haters, there will be naysayers, there will be disbelievers.
27:47And then there will be you proving them wrong.
27:50My mother, whatever I am today, I'm nothing without her.
28:04I'm nothing without her.
28:06Thank you, Mama.
28:07I wish you were here.
28:08Thank you for making me who I am today.
28:18You know what, we human beings have a problem.
28:21Out of many problems, there is one more, and this is a self-created one.
28:28We always expect ease from life.
28:33We have this amazing fantasy about life.
28:37This is how things should work.
28:39This is my plan.
28:40It should go as per my plan.
28:43If that doesn't happen, we give up.
28:46My dear friends, let me tell you one thing.
28:49I never wanted to be on the wheelchair, never thought of being on the wheelchair.
28:55I was always aspiring to do bigger things but had no idea that for that I have to pay
29:00the price to be where I am today.
29:03It's a very heavy price.
29:06This life is a test and a trial, and tests are trials, are never supposed to be easy.
29:12So when you are expecting ease from life, and life gives you lemons, then you make the
29:18lemonade and then do not blame life for that because you were expecting ease from a trial.
29:25Trials make you a stronger, better person.
29:30Life is a trial every time you realize that.
29:42It is okay to be scared.
29:44It is okay to cry.
29:47Everything is okay, but giving up should not be an option.
29:52They always say that failure is not an option.
29:55Failure should be an option because when you fail, you get up, and then you fail, and then
30:00you get up, and that keeps you going.
30:03That's how humans are strong.
30:10Failure is an option, should be an option, but giving up is not, never.
30:17We have this thing in minds.
30:19We call it perfection.
30:21We want everything perfect.
30:23We want ourselves to be perfect.
30:25There is this image in our head about everything, perfect life, perfect relationships, perfect
30:30career, perfect amount of money that we need to earn no matter what.
30:36Nothing is perfect in this world.
30:38We all are perfectly imperfect, and that is perfectly all right.
30:43That's all right.
30:45We were sent here not to become the perfect people.
30:51Those people who tell you how to look perfect, even those people are imperfect, trying to
30:56fight this fear of looking imperfect.
30:59I used to be perfect.
31:00I still remember.
31:02I got this compliment years ago when I used to walk.
31:05Oh, my God, look at you.
31:06You're fair.
31:07You're tall.
31:08You're beautiful.
31:09You're perfect.
31:10Look at me now.
31:11You're still perfect.
31:18Only the perfect eyes can see that.
31:21Only the perfect eyes will see that.
31:25Only the perfect eyes will see that.
31:27So yes, in all those imperfections, you have to listen to your heart.
31:36You don't have to look good for people.
31:38You don't have to be perfect just because other people want you to be perfect.
31:43If your soul is perfect from within, that's all right.
31:47This is all what you want.
31:50This is all what you need to be.
31:53Our society has made very weird, very weird kind of norms to look perfect and great.
32:03For men, it's different.
32:04For women, it's different.
32:06We think too much about what people say.
32:09We listen to ourselves too little.
32:13You know what makes you perfect?
32:16When you make someone smile.
32:18You know what makes you perfect?
32:21When you try to do something good for the people around you.
32:24You know what makes you perfect?
32:25When you feel someone's pain.
32:27And how beautiful pain is that it connects you with people.
32:32No other medium can connect you with others but pain.
32:35That's why I always say that I'm in pain and that's a blessing in disguise for me.
32:40Today, just because I'm in pain and I'm on the wheelchair, I work for children.
32:49Being the head of CSR for a company.
32:53We conduct medical camps in far-flung areas of Pakistan where so many kids die because
32:58they don't have medical facilities.
33:00And I personally believe just because they cannot afford to live doesn't mean we let
33:04them die.
33:06So we give them money.
33:07We give them medical treatment.
33:09We try to heal their wounds, physical and emotional.
33:15And I also work for the beautiful people.
33:19We call them third gender.
33:21The transgender community of Pakistan.
33:25You know what connects me with them?
33:28All my imperfections.
33:31When I go and I hug them, they never judge me.
33:36And this very good friend of mine, her name is Bijli, Bijli means electricity.
33:41She calls herself electricity.
33:42And I said, are you electricity?
33:43She says, no, I'm lightning.
33:45I'm as strong as lightning.
33:52Because we have very bad power outages, so she doesn't want me to call her electricity.
33:56So she says, I am very strong.
33:58I am thunder.
33:59I am lightning.
34:00She came to me and the first time I hugged her, she said, you are just like me.
34:07And I said, yes, I am like you.
34:09Because to people, we are so imperfect.
34:13So how beautiful these imperfections are that because of these imperfections, you can connect
34:18with people.
34:19Then why are we all running after being perfect?
34:23What's the point?
34:31Every time I go in public, I always smile.
34:34It's always a big smile on my face and people ask me, don't you get tired of smiling all
34:38the time?
34:39What's the secret?
34:40I always say one thing, that I have stopped worrying about the things that I have lost,
34:46the people that I have lost.
34:48Things and people who were meant to be with me are with me.
34:52And sometimes, somebody's absence makes you a better person.
34:58Cherish their absence.
35:00It's always, it's always a blessing in disguise.
35:06I always say that people are so lucky they don't even realize.
35:10You must be thinking, okay, you're lucky in what sense?
35:13Well, the breath that you just took was a blessing.
35:18Embrace it.
35:24There are so many people in the world who are dreaming to live a life that you are living
35:31right now.
35:32You have no idea.
35:35Embrace each and every breath that you are taking, celebrate your life, live it.
35:41Don't die before your death.
35:44We all die.
35:53We live this one routine of a day for 75 years and we call it life.
35:59No, that's not life.
36:02If you're still thinking why you have been sent here, if you're still juggling with the
36:06concept of why you are here, you haven't lived yet.
36:12You work hard, you make money, you do it for yourself.
36:17That's not life.
36:19You go out, you seek for people who need your help, you make their lives better.
36:25You become that sponge which can absorb all the negativity and you become that person
36:29who can emit beautiful positive vibes.
36:32And when you realize that you have changed someone's life and because of you, this person
36:37didn't give up.
36:39That is the day when you live, always.
36:52We were talking about gratitude, why I smile all the time.
36:57I cry all night when nobody sees me because I'm a human and I have to keep the balance.
37:03And I smile all day because I know that if I will smile, I can make people smile.
37:10That keeps me going.
37:16Be grateful for what you have and you will always, always end up having more.
37:23But if you'll cry and if you'll cry for the little things that you don't have or the things
37:27that you've lost, you will never ever have enough.
37:32Sometimes we are too busy thinking about the things that we don't have that we forget to
37:35cherish the blessings that we have.
37:40I'm not saying that I'm not healthy and that makes me unlucky, but yes, it is hard.
37:47It is hard when I say that I cannot walk.
37:49It is hard to say when I wear this bag, it hurts, but I have to keep going because never
37:56giving up is the way to live, always.
38:06So I'll end my talk on a very short note.
38:12Live your life fully, accept yourself the way you are, be kind to yourself, be kind
38:19to yourself.
38:20I'll repeat, be kind to yourself and only then you can be kind to others.
38:25Love yourself and spread that love.
38:28Life will be hard, there will be turmoil, there will be trials, but that will only make
38:32you stronger.
38:34Never give up.
38:36The real happiness doesn't lie in money or success or fame.
38:43I have this all, I never wanted this.
38:46Real happiness lies in gratitude.
38:49So be grateful, be alive and live every moment.
38:55Thank you so much everyone.
38:57Thank you.