
Human
Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
presents
A GoodPlanet Foundation
project
With the participation of
France Tlvisions
A film by
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I remember...
my stepfather
would beat me with extension cords
and hangers,
pieces of wood
and all kinds of stuff.
He would tell me:
"It hurt me more than you.
"I only did it, because I love you."
It communicated the wrong message
to me about what love was.
So, for many years,
I thought
that love was supposed to hurt.
I hurt everyone that I loved.
And I measured love
by how much pain
someone would take from me.
And it wasn't until I came to prison,
an environment
that is devoid of love,
that I began to have
some understanding
about what it actually
was and was not.
I met someone.
She gave me my first real insight
into what love was.
She saw past my condition
and the fact that I was in prison
with a life sentence
for doing the worst kind of murder
that a man can do:
murdering a woman and a child.
It was Agnes,
the mother and grandmother of...
Patricia and Chris, that I murdered,
who gave me
By all rights, she should hate me.
But she didn't.
Over the course of time,
through the journey that we took,
it has been pretty amazing,
she gave me love.
She taught me what it was.
I'm very happy when it rains,
when I drink milk
and I have a good life.
When I put on weight.
I'm thin now.
When it rains,
I am very happy.
When I drink milk
and I eat everything I like.
And when I sleep with the man I love
And when I am in a nice hut
that protects me
from the cold and rain.
Those are the things
that make me happy.
Happiness, for us,
would be...
having food,
and a real place to live,
with electricity day and night.
We wouldn't have to sleep
in the dark.
That would be happiness.
But we sleep on the floor,
without even a mat, on straw.
With electricity,
there would be light
in my children's lives.
So,
as I had
a difficult childhood
without any money,
when I went to university,
I got a grant
and I bought myself a motorbike.
Brand-new!
I was the first person
to start it up.
I was the first person to get on it
to go home.
When I feel the wind
whipping me as I ride along,
knowing that I'm not
on someone else's motorbike.
It's my very own motorbike.
I arrived home,
and to get to sleep,
I put the bike in my bedroom
and I locked myself in with it.
That way, I could smell
the hot engine.
The smell of the engine,
the new bike smell.
And when I turned the light on,
I could see it was my very own bike.
I couldn't put the bike
on the bed, under the covers,
but it's what I wanted to do.
Yes...
I felt it. Yes.
That was a moment
Happiness
That's a mother's happiness.
It's when my husband
comes home, smiles,
and kisses me,
after 33 years of married life.
That's a woman's happiness.
Happiness is hearing
my grandchildren saying: "Grandma!"
When they say that, you feel older,
but that's happiness, too.
It's also meeting colleagues
who are happy to see you.
They think:
"She's here, let's talk."
That's happiness, too.
It's getting up in the morning
and not hurting anywhere.
That's happiness, too.
It's the rain which is the promise
of a good harvest.
There are many kinds of happiness,
but at the same time,
there's only one:
you're alive, so you're happy.
Just my experiences
from being in a wheelchair
and traveling the world
in a wheelchair
I've seen life from a different angle
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