I Am Happy if You Are Happy
If Maldives Tourism Bureau is to choose a spokesperson in Hong Kong, then Mcdull must be the best candidate.
Almost everyone in Hong Kong can clearly recall Mcdull’s dreamy face: "the sea is so limpid in Maldives and sands so white, there are also coconut trees booming and dancing in wind, what a paradise along the Indian Ocean shore... ..."
Why does McDull like Maldives so much? Perhaps it is because of the low sense of happiness in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is the front of the financial war between the west and the east, and any political or economic change will cause quite a stir in the city. Hong Kong has rows upon rows of highscrapers, and at the same time layers of narrow shabby houses, stress can be felt everywhere: in burning joss sticks of Temples, in the leisure of cafes, and even in the grace and charms of the Hong Kong Hung Hom Stadium. Only nobody has the courage to cry out: "Pressure! Pressure! To be released! To be released! "
Each person has his or her own understanding towards “sense of happiness”, because inner feelings are always abstract and thus difficult to grasp. But people like to compare with each other and make everything quantified; that is how "happiness index" come into being.
It is said that "happiness index" was first proposed and put into practice by the King of Bhutan.
A reporter who went to Bhutan to report two film star’s wedding came back saying, “in Bhutan, there are green valley surrounded with rushing rivers, on plain scattered Tibetan houses with brown walls and white tiles, rice flower fragrance spread everywhere. The air is so fresh as if been washed and people drink in it can be drunk with the scent. Tap water in Bhutan can be directly used. People use bamboo basket for fruits and vegetables, use tree leaves to wrap pork, and make bowls with leaves to hold milk - probably we can only see such a fascinating scene in traditional TV shows.
Bhutan's per capita GDP is only more than 700 U.S. dollars, but despite of its economic underdevelopment and relatively isolated location, Bhutan's happiness index score has always been among the highest in the world---people’s sense of happiness has little to do with the city's economic strength, and it is said that American people's sense of happiness scores strikingly low, even lower than that of Iraq and Iran people.
Bhutan people love their country and cities, they do not fish in the river and do not kill, most meat they consume are imported from India; while we are vigorously developing tourism, the Bhutan Government limits the number of foreign visitors to be less than 5,000 each year in order to protect its forests, they even charge each visitor tourist tax as high as 200 U.S. dollars per night; tree-planting, like their activity to pay tribute to Buddha, is an important part of Bhutan people’s life: one must plant two trees for cutting down one - if a city also has a sense of happiness, then Bhutan must rank the top on the happiness index. People nowhere else can cherish, protect and nourish the land beneath their foot as much the Bhutanese, which makes it possible that the land is as green as ever before.
The Bhutanese are happy, they pay tribute to Buddha, plant trees, drink spring water, and eat little meat, they need not worry about vehicle exhaust, toxic milk powder or financial crisis – what is most envious for us, who live in a society in which “women are working like men and men are working like animals” is that Bhutan does not have time limits, you can work or sleep or eat at any time, there is an official time schedule, but no one will be punished or blamed for breaching it- no wonder the film stars choose to have their wedding here.
Whether it is a way of life or a living body closely related to us, a city's happiness indicates our own well-being. The theme of Shanghai World Expo next year is "Better City, Better Life," maybe behind a group of happy people there is a happy city.
Now, we all regard the city as a living body, which has its own life, emotion and soul. Only when a city is happy, can it create more for people living in it - just like Bhutan, its carefully protected forests provide with it a wealth of water resources and hydropower revenues, a solid financial backup for the happiness of its people, who are enjoying now free health care and education ... ...
A city will treat you the way it is treated, and you get what you deserve.
yes，I Am Happy if You Are Happy