Quest for Happiness

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Bhutan was believed to be a utopic place to live in. There people were happy, this might be for many reasons, but generally because there priorities were oriented into the collective living and happiness of others. The people there believed in reincarnation, they were devoted to their king; their military was rather small compared to the monks to habit the country. The military there instead of taking on they’re supposed task of defending they manufactured liquor. The author devises a quote that although far from reality, if true, would definitely depict a whole new world. He says, “Imagine if all the world’s armies got into alcohol business. Make booze not war could become the rallying cry for a whole generation of peaceniks”. The author, Eric Weiner also develops other ideas, that one might think are the reason for this people’s undoubted happiness in Bhutan. In his book The Geography of Bliss, the author recounts memoirs of his travel, which one can definitely assume has changed him. That’s exactly the point, when we travel, the place, shape us and define. Change your place and you can change your life.  This book also defies categorization. He explains that in Bhutan their king has made Gross National Happiness a national priority. He goes in a quest to for the ingredients for the good life, the places most happily habited. 

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By reading it we experience inspiration and wisdom, which may be found in odd places. I want to finish with two quotes of the book that touched me and can be applied to our current generation so we can also go in the quest of true happiness: “I've alwaysbelieved that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining theright corner.” And “So the greatest source of happiness is other people--andwhat does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to buildwalls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming collegedorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. Wethink we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves". We need to define what is it really that we want, that which will give us our individual happiness before we quest for the collective one.