Positivity has a community aspect, like candlelight. A Lebanese speaker traces this resilience to the civil war (1975-1990) and economic depression, sharing a personal story from 1980-1985 in the conflict's center. Beirut as a phoenix rising from ashes captures the nation's enduring hope.
So it seems. So you're pretty positive. You just didn't notice what was going on. And then you had the model of people that were stressed out and then how people handled it or stepped up. And it sounds like there's a huge community aspect to positivity. Right. Or the candlelight.
Absolutely. I think it's probably part of the culture, too, in Lebanon that it has been resilient for so long. The civil war in Lebanon lasted from 1975 to 1990. So. And my story is from 1980 to 1984. 84, 85. So it's right smack in the middle of the war. But the country has gone through and is still going through not not a war, but an economic depression. But they've always compared the country and Beirut, the capital, to the phoenix that rises from the ashes.
