Why this Losar, I am grateful to be a Bhutanese!

This morning I woke up thinking about the kind of Losar message I would I like to share on my Facebook page at the start of the new Lunar year: what am I thankful for? What am I looking forward to?

My mind has been fully occupied for the last twelve hours in a monologue as a result of those questions. Feeling a little like Calvino’s, ‘Mr.Palomar’, I have been pondering the meaning of being a Bhutanese: it is only natural that I do so because when I give thanks for the year gone by, the first thing I am grateful for is being Bhutanese. But why am I grateful for being a Bhutanese?