Bangkok immediately caters to all your senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. I think of happy ending in a whole new way in Bangkok. At the end of purchasing street food, speaking with a Metro employee, walking out of a restaurant, visiting an art gallery, walking through a park, or exploring a market. The warmth, friendliness, and genuine qualities enhance your senses. For instance, the Bangkokians do not give you attitude if you do not buy instead they say “Thank you and smile.” I actually felt guilty many times for not buying because they were so friendly and nice that I wanted to buy from them. These qualities seem so basic, but they make such a difference in our experience traveling and our overall behavioral response and interaction. We are more likely to respond positively to someone who is kind and smiling than someone giving attitude and negative non-verbal body language.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love Mother Teresa
The positive interaction between two people can then lead to another positive interaction. If this is repeated throughout your day a person is more likely to be happy right? I based many of my theories off of A.)ten years of studying psychology and B.) the environment and what I have experienced. With happiness, it can be an internal happiness, but the influence of the environment is a large percentage of how we feel and how happiness is sustained. With bangkokians, there is happiness that lies within the culture and their daily interaction that makes tourist feel welcome and “feel good.” I felt it throughout within my first few days in Bangkok and this feeling was just the beginning….
Arriving in Bangkok, I was not quite sure what to expect. You hear about the stereotypes i.e. it is dirty, full of prostitutes, and sex trafficking. The media makes the stereotypes come to life presenting stories of business men going to Bangkok to buy sex and “happy endings.” The prostitution does exist and the city is dirty in specific areas, but this city is a wonderland of beauty and “real happy endings.”
Bangkok immediately caters to all your senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. I think of happy ending in a whole new way in Bangkok. At the end of purchasing street food, speaking with a Metro employee, walking out of a restaurant, visiting an art gallery, walking through a park, or exploring a market. The warmth, friendliness, and genuine qualities enhance your senses. For instance, the Bangkokians do not give you attitude if you do not buy instead they say “Thank you and smile.” I actually felt guilty many times for not buying because they were so friendly and nice that I wanted to buy from them. These qualities seem so basic, but they make such a difference in our experience traveling and our overall behavioral response and interaction. We are more likely to respond positively to someone who is kind and smiling than someone giving attitude and negative non-verbal body language.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love Mother Teresa
The positive interaction between two people can then lead to another positive interaction. If this is repeated throughout your day a person is more likely to be happy right? I based many of my theories off of A.)ten years of studying psychology and B.) the environment and what I have experienced. With happiness, it can be an internal happiness, but the influence of the environment is a large percentage of how we feel and how happiness is sustained. With bangkokians, there is happiness that lies within the culture and their daily interaction that makes tourist feel welcome and “feel good.” I felt it throughout within my first few days in Bangkok and this feeling was just the beginning….
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