Number one lesson from almost dying at the age of sixteen
you have to be willing to find the light though
You have to be willing to believe in yourself and to believe in your story and to believe that there's more that you're going through
And that what you're going through is going to bring you
Further into who you're supposed to be and you're calling and find the good in it
Hey guys, welcome back to my channel
If it's your first time here
my name is Kristie Sita and I post videos every Wednesday and Fridays and today you came on a very special episode because
Today is marking five years since my boating accident
So in case you didn't notice, you know, I only have one hand.. clearly and no I was not born without it
So five years ago on this day
I was in a really tragic boating accident where pretty much you can go watch this video here and you can get the full story
But I went back to go reach for a rope because the tube had fallen out the back the boat and my hand is tangled
And I blew out my hand ripped completely off. I rose out of the water and I had no hand.
I had no idea what had happened from there I was rushed into an ambulance and then I got helicopter to Children's Hospital and Children's
Hospital took care of me there and they decided to not reattach my hand and now I have had one hand for five years, so
today, I just want to talk about some of the things that I have learnt in the past five years and in kind of the
Journey that I've been on and the place where I'm at today with everything that's happened
And so for this video guys, I have no plans like I was gonna write them again
Then I was just like I'm just gonna let Godl lead me in this conversation and what I want to say
I mean I talk about all the time
Kind of.. but guys we don't have time not to live right now
Like for me I'll show you again these pictures like I showed in my last video, but there's a video from 9 o'clock
Which I had my left hand and I was flexing in the gym
There's a photo from 3 o'clock where I'm on the way to the hospital
There's a picture from I think 5 o'clock or 11 o'clock and I'm in the hospital post amputation
But when I woke up at 9 o'clock that morning, I would have had no idea
What in my day held, like no idea ..10 minutes before my accident I was texting my mom saying mom
I'm having the best day ever and I sent her a video of us tubing actually, which was really crazy
But you never know guys, and and I hate that cliche saying of like 'live like you're dying'
But I say like 'love like you're dying' like tell your friends. Tell your family
you can never reform people enough and you can never encourage people enough and
Love on people enough because at the end of the day guys when we are on our deathbed we're never asking for like our achievements
or our awards or our money or our bank account like you're asking for people that you love you're asking her family you're asking
For community and that's all you that you want
so
Why would we waste our whole life?
Pushing towards one goal and pushing to one standard and then at the end of it none of it matters
Anyways, like everything that's in our life right now. Like does it really matter? Like it it's it's irrelevant
It's not important
and so the biggest thing that I can carry on to you guys and I'd say this was so much passion because
Man, if I didn't love my family the way that I did on that day still and the day before
Like oh my goodness
You just never know what is gonna happen and you never know
And I hate that like I don't want to say 'live like you're dying'
I don't want to say that because it's so cliche
But you need to love like you don't know what's gonna happen
Like you need to love
Everybody in your life whether you have family or you don't have family whether that's your friends, your community, your church, your people, your sports
Team, whatever it is, like love those people with all your intent because you don't know what's gonna happen in their life
And what's gonna happen in your life and we don't want to waste any time
So it's like you learn that, I learned that as a 16 year old girl when I almost died at the age
of 16 like I was not done and I was pleading to God like please don't take me because I'm not done and
we're not done until we get to go home and like
If you're still here like God still has a plan for you
If you're still breathing
Then God still has a plan for you and like we need to press into that and we need to love now and take advantage
Of now because we don't know when that's gonna end. You don't know what's gonna happen
We don't know what we're gonna be injured or a loved one is or whatever like it's just it's so cliche
But it's so not because it's so real because I lived it and I experienced it and like we need to just love more now
because you don't have time and
that's like the most important lesson I could ever pass on from going through what I went through is just like
Love like there's no tomorrow just love people more because at the end of the day
that is the most important thing in your whole entire life is just to love people and so
Number one lesson from almost dying at the age of 16. Love people more. All right. I'm getting real passionate here
Whoo, calm down Kristie. Okay secondly is
Keep fighting guys pretty much in my life. This past five years has been absolutely insane
I feel like I've been in a battlefield for literally five years
Which I have and there's a lot of things that I don't
Show you guys on social media and it may seem like I'm really okay
that I didn't struggle and then I didn't have hard times but man I
Struggled I was so broken. I felt so disgusting
I was so lonely
And I went through like a lot of heartbreak in the past five years and a lot of different ways
And so I know social media portrays all of us in one way
But there's so much more but need that surface of every single one of us no matter what you put online
There's always more to the story and so for me another thing that I never publicized at all
But as most of you guys would know with like car accident there's insurance with boating accident is insurance
And so there's a lawsuit that goes with that so pretty much for the past five years. I have been in a fight for
My life with this freakin lawsuit because pretty much every time I try to move forward I get in a doctor's report
Or I get in a doctor's room or get into a specialist and they're like you can't do this. You can't take care of your own children
you're gonna happen a nanny that has to live in your house because you can't hold them and you can't carry them and you can't
Do this and you're gonna have to get all these tools for your house because you're incapable of moving and then I'm gonna get skin
Cancer because I've got a big scar then I'm gonna need back surgery and then I'm gonna need all of these things
that's gonna grow on with my body because I'm living with one hand and when you're hearing that and you are trying desperately
For your life to move on and all you can hear is these voices that are being like negative negative negative negative negative
it's like
an insane feeling. like it is it is crazy and
I was fighting through that for five years with like these two different voices of what I wanted and what I felt like I was
Getting called into and then what these voices and what these people were trying to like tell me which was look real
but at the time of being a young girl trying to move on I did not want to hear it and it was really really
hard to face them and accept
What was going to happen to me, essentially or it could happen to me? You never know
but just believing above and beyond these doctors reports because there's no doctor's report a report that can ever define what my future is gonna
Be and how I'm gonna live and I believe in a power so much greater than that
And so for me it was hard to battle, but it was a constant battle for sure
But now guys five years later like my lawsuit is over
I'm standing in a victory of this past five years
like finally
I feel like the fight that I've been in is freakin over and it feels so good
Like I'm gonna get emotional here and like a hot sec. I'm just gonna try and like
Keep it together because that's what we do on cameras. We keep things together
But I was really I I fought so hard and I fought so long
And I didn't see the light of it at the end as much as I wanted to believe that everything was going to be okay
and I was gonna be okay and that I still had purpose like
man, I didn't believe it and to be standing on this opposite side where I'm like I
I just feel like I'm living like a whole new life that is greater and bigger than I could have possibly
Imagined like the call that I thought was on my life to be this like dancer and film and blah blah blah
It's like so irrelevant and so small compared to what God has planned for to finally let go
I didn't really talk about this in this video, but it's relevant to this video
I've always thought that I was supposed to be this one person in this one career
and this was like the life that I had built for myself and
The more I lean into God the more he's pulling me away from that and pulling me into different settings and different people and different
Opportunities and so I've never felt so it and in the most like honest and humble way
But it's just like I know the call on my life is really big and I know God is calling me to like scary
places and big places in my life and
It's just crazyt. Like I don't want to keep saying it's crazy
but it's crazy and it's just one of those things but like
Pretty much moral of this whole story guys is that there is victory for what you're going through now
You have to keep believing you have to keep pushing through because for me I didn't see the light tomorrow
I didn't see the light the next week or the next month or in the next year even like I fought for five years to
be in this place, and I'm finally like
I will always have this past I will always have walked through these struggles
but I feel like I'm on the other side of the battle and I'm like walking into literally like the Promised Land like just like
duh duh duh duh duh. but I'm like also so ready for the next battle like it's like
crazy
How much work is inside of me and how much I've grown?
in my character and in who I am and my beliefs in my relationship with God is like
insane like I'm just
so ready for whatever life is gonna throw at me and wherever I'm gonna get called to and I'm not attached to any of my
Own ambitions or my own like ideas right now
I'm just so invested in God and like that relationship and so for me, sorry
I've been talking really quick like this entire video
this is what happens when I get passionate and we're gonna have to learn to tone this down of how I'm gonna be a little
bit more subtle about it because literally when I start talking
But
but again
this whole thing like you have to keep fighting because if I were to have given up and if I were to lean into other
like substances or drugs or alcohol or partying or
like depression or any of that I
could have easily fallen into that for what I was going through what I was facing and the things that I was feeling but I
Had to push through and I had to believe that there was light even if I didn't see it
So it's like you just need to imagine yourself on the other side of what you're going through right now because it is coming
I'm telling you it's coming your victory is just on the other side of what you're facing right now
And I know it seems impossible. But what you're going through is transforming your heart
It's transforming your mind is transforming you and like revealing crazy parts about you that you never knew
You were passionate about or that you cared about or whatever
but like listen to your heart lean into your heart and just like
Be okay with not being okay because I think when we try and cover it up so much
it just doesn't get anywhere and we just need to get to a point when we just surrender what we're feeling and we just be
like man
I am not in control of what happens to me and that's okay because
There is something bigger out there
that is pulling me through that is loving me through that is carrying you through and for me like that is Jesus and that is
our relationship with God and I could not have gotten here without my relationship with God and is just like
my whole life revolves around this and everything that I'm doing is coming from my relationship with God and so
again, I know this isn't the same beliefs as alot of people out there, but this is just how I have gone through my
season of
battle, I guess like it was just like it was the only thing it was the only reason I could actually heal from some of
the things that I saw and some of the things that I went through was
Giving that over to Jesus and so if that's not what you believe that's totally fine
but this is just again my perspective on what I've been through and
So today I really just wanted to share with you guys those two things of how I got through
these past couple years and my two notes is just to love like there's no tomorrow love like you don't know what's gonna happen and
Keep on fighting because there is victory coming and if that's all you came to here today
And then I'm so happy that you made it to this video and I don't know what I'm naming the video yet
So I'm sorry if it's a little bit dramatic, but you know, I had to get you here somehow. So, uh
Yeah, that's pretty much I think all I have to say for today
In this video, and I'm sorry for talking so fast
but I hope that you guys will subscribe to my channel and keep posting it on the rest of my life and
I just can't wait to bring you along this journey. And so oh yeah merch
So I guess lastly in I am releasing my first ever
Merchandise and for me guys, this is not a this is my name Kristie Sita subscribe to my channel merch
this is something that I want you to wear in the morning and that you
will
Wear that to remember that there is light that you will remember that to remember that there is hope and so for me these pieces
Are all coordinated around this day in particular
June 30th 2014 and for me like that was the date my life began in the place of my life again
And so without being said, I'm pretty much gonna pop up the store right here guys
And you can start looking through them. There is hoodies and sweatshirts phone cases and totes totes totes bags
But a really special thing about this launch is I'm actually gonna be donating
25% of all sales back to Children's Hospital, which is who took care of me after my accident
that was where I did my recovery in and so
That's like pretty much all of my earnings from this is I'm going right back to Children's Hospital
And so if you purchase any of these items you were making a huge
contribution to the hospital and
I just love you guys so much and I did these for you so that you have like an Armour to put on in the morning
when you're like
there's light there is hope I'm gonna keep fighting and so I'm just gonna explain these designs just a little bit and so
These here for the hoodies and the sweatshirts
There's two different designs that you can choose from but essentially these are my home coordinates for the Sunshine Coast of where the accident happened
And then this is the mark of my tattoo
Which a lot of you guys know that but
I've got this tattoo on the side of my arm here that I got to represent my accident because for me this symbolizes a heartbeat
And survival and then also the cross and so that is that is my hope. That is my strength. That was my faith
That's everything. That's got me through it
And so you've got like kind of the beginning in the end of my journey on you and is something that I hope
Brings value to your life and brings value to your wardrobe and that you can just be really proud to wear
The only thing that says my name on it is in the tattoo. There's like a really teeny
And that's all I put in
I'm gonna put on the other design and I'm gonna show you the hand print and I'll give you the final details
Okay. So this is the other design here. It's just like a hand print and it's got my single-handed pursuit in it
Really really cute. It's got some hoodie pockets down here. I love it. I wear a medium and it fits me really good
But if you're taller you will want to get a large and so again
25% of all proceeds with this merchandise will be going back to Children's Hospital and I'm so excited
To give you guys and bring you guys along when I hand my chair covers them as well
I think that's gonna be really
exciting that we as a family and as a community could contribute back to them as a whole and I just want to say I
Love you guys so much whether you get the merchandise or not
I am so thankful for you and your
contribution to my life
my channel and that you've given me this life that I get to just live and show you guys and you be inspired that you
Allow me to be a mentor or someone positive in your life. It is an honor. I don't take that lightly
I love you guys
so much and I can never thank you enough for all that you've done for me and
The life that you've given me in the love that you've given me in the support, really
I just love you guys so much and I cannot wait to see you guys in this year
To make sure when you do buy them take me in your purchases or message me on Instagram
You can message me here
And I'm going to be responding to every single one of you because I want to know if it's getting it
I want to know who's wearing it post your photos and you can use hashtag #seethelight or #sitafamilymerch
and so those are the two ways that you are gonna be searchable on the internet wearing my merchandise
I love you guys so much. Don't forget to post your photos message me. Let me know
I love you guys, and I cannot wait to hear your reactions on this merchandise. I love you so much
Thank you for everything and I will see you in my next video. Love you so much