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To Bhutan, where in the 1970s the king announced that the happiness of the population was a better measure of national success than the economic indicator, the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. But it wasn't until Bhutan became a democracy in 2008 that Gross National Happiness, or GNH, became official government policy. The man charged with overseeing Bhutan's happiness was Saamdu Chetri, and this month sees his plans coming to fruition with the opening of the country's first happiness centre. Our reporter C. Bellevage travelled to the Himalayas to meet him while the GNH Centre was still under construction.
Welcome to the GNH Centre.
Oh, thank you.
So lovely to see you here.
Is that a hard work?
Yeah, it's very hard. You need a lot of force, power in your, in the hammer and in your hands as well.
What did the workers say when you do that?
In the beginning they wondered, you know, why would I here at work? And then they realised that it's not only for them that, I'm helping the, I'm helping for myself by being physically fit.
Oh, so you're actually enjoying the work yourself. |
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发表于 2016-8-15 20:40:08