GET BACK UP// NEVER GIVE UP -

I want to talk about like when I started

you know go to school and stuff a lot of

people put me down you don't I mean like

people tease each other I mean people

come up and say hey you're fat you're

fat you're fat you're back you're fat

you're fat you lose some

weight and you're like you go home and

you look at yourself in the mirror and go

oh right and so many people tease each

other oh you know you're too short

you're too tall you look whatever a

different hair and all that it doesn't

matter see the thing is when you're in

school when you're growing up in living it

sort of matters to people how

you look and any matters to you because

it matters to others why doesn't

matter how you look because if they

don't like you and who will if they

don't accept you then who will and the

fear that we have is that we're going to

be alone that we're not good enough and

you know we have to change ourselves you

know so many people put me down and say

Nick, you look too weird, and no one's

your friend and you can't do this

and you can't do that

and I couldn't change anything I don't

like just fixing my hair one day and

everything's fine but it was so hard

because people put me down and I started

believing that I was not good enough I

started believing that I was a failure

that I'll never be somebody who

people would like or people would accept

and it was so hard man I thought to

myself I you know I can't go on to go

into a soccer field like everybody else

I can't ride my bike and I can't

skateboard and all these sorts of things

and I started getting depressed I

thought what kind of purpose I have

to live I mean do you are you just here

to live to die I mean is there not a

the purpose for me is there, not a purpose in

life and I had questions and no answers

and asked my mom and dad why did this

happen I asked doctors why did this

happen they don't know

some things in life are

out of your control that you can't

change and you're going to live with the

a choice that we have though is either to

give up or keep on going I want to ask

you what are you gonna believe are you

gonna believe in yourself you're gonna

believe everybody else's judgment of you

are you gonna believe people when they

say that you're a failure no one really

likes you don't care about you

it's not really to say that hey you need

someone to come up and say hey really I

like you I care about you no it's not

that but it's the fact that people put

you are down people don't even look you in

the eye people ask you how you are and

you say fine but you're not fine

I don't know I tell you life is

interesting life's a journey see this

phone here let's say that I want to go

to the phone right I have to take one

step at a time one step at a time one

step at a time you can only take one

step at a time I don't care how big your

a step is it's only one step at a time you

can't do two steps in one understanding so

it's like once a bit of time and

you take steps in this direction you

take steps in that direction sort of get

lost along the way and sometimes you

fall you might fall like this

ready hmm

so what do you do when you fall and get

back up Everybody knows to get back up

because he flies start walking I'm gonna

get anyway and I tell you there are some

times in life when you fall you feel like you don't have the strength to

get back up so so sort of put a mask on

your face when you come to school

pretend that everything's okay when it's

not and you go home and lay in your bed

where no one's looking at you when you

don't have to impress anybody and you're

yourself and fear comes in you know the

fear that you have as soon as you walk

into the doors of your house maybe

there's a broken home maybe you have

doubt in your life maybe you don't know

for sure what's going to be happening in

the future and it scares you maybe about

may be you're worried about what people

think of yourself and what people say about you

just that fear paralyzes you and I just

want to ask you today do you think you

have

because I tell you I'm down here face

down and I have no arms no legs it

should be impossible for me to get back

up it should be impossible for me to get

back up but it's not you see I will try

100 times to get up any 5 fail 100 times

if I fail and I give up do you think

that I'm ever gonna get up no but if I

fail I try again and again and again as

long as I try this where's that chance

of getting up does that make sense

it's not the end until you've given up

and just the fact that you're here

should persuade you that you have

another chance to get back up there's

still hope I'm not here today to tell

you that I understand your pain I don't

know how it feels to be abused I don't

know how it feels to feel quote fat made

Do you have an eating disorder I don't know how

it feels that a broken home I don't know

how it feels

Brickner

and I want you to know that I found my

strength Jesus Christ you can find your

strength in whatever you find it

you

are you going to finish strong you will

find that strength to get back up like

this

you