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Architecture in Bhutan is in harmony with its culture The idea for today’s blog came after a Friday get together with a group of friends who keen so much love for Kurdistan.  We had a wonderful lunch and then we decided to watch a documentary on the little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.  As I was watching the documentary and learning about their philosophy of happiness, ideas started flourishing; we could possibly consider parts of the Bhutanese approach in modernizing Kurdistan to meet our people’s needs. In the United States and in many other industrialized countries, happiness is often equated with materialism. Else where in world, a growing number of economists, social scientists, corporate leaders and bureaucrats are trying to develop measurements that equate happiness with the flow of money, access to suitable health care, free time with family, conservation of natural resources and other non-economic factors. But to the Bhutanese, happiness lies in the mi...

If you ask me about happiness, I would say its a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's that simple my friend yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend. Be happy, stay beautiful Helene :) Who can say they are not having as much pleasure and fun in challenging themselves and each other? Photo credit goes to an email forward I got from the amazing Stafford Clarry :)