Homelessness and resilience by Sandrine Anterrion

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00:00Homelessness and Resilience by Sandrine Anterian.

00:03Homelessness rips you open.

00:05You may never quite recover.

00:07It may always stay with you.

00:09Various ex-homeless people keep negative social patterns, and do not manage to adopt new positive

00:16mind frames.

00:17They will carry on feeling and acting like losers.

00:21At various points during my time in temporary accommodation, I stayed in hotels near Heathrow

00:27Airport.

00:28It was there that I enjoyed the pleasurable observation of airplanes.

00:33In their natural environment, they sat there in imposing majesty, behind tall gates, much

00:39like wild animals at a safari expedition, and just like their African counterparts.

00:46They demanded respect, awe and admiration.

00:49Those enormous birds were a fantastic source of philosophical inspiration.

00:53Every time I passed the terminal, and every time I witnessed a departure, the aircrafts

01:00impacted my ailing soul.

01:02With a cold fresh breath of resilience.

01:05How did those massive creatures defy gravity?

01:08Against all odds.

01:09How did they manage to get off the ground, and fly into the sunset?

01:13Anyone who ever started a business, or ever felt down in the dumps, many truly ought to benefit

01:20from those observations.

01:22I did, one day, sit down on the grass by the terminal, with a baguette, some cheese, some

01:29ham, and a mercifully large bottle of Diet Coke.

01:33It was a very reflective time, and an enlightened one.

01:37I thought of my father, of our regular visits to the airport as a family.

01:42I thought of how special it was then, to go and watch those planes take off.

01:47Eating a snack with my daddy.

01:49I thought of miracles of science.

01:52Allowing a 40 ton metal beauty to rise and stabilize herself above human heads.

01:57Allowing her to do so.

01:59When all logical thinking had given up on her.

02:02Gravity is at loss when love and resilience are together.

02:06Sandrine and Tyrion.