Having a cat makes me happy.
How to propagate the Virus of Happiness?
In fact, it's quite simple !
- Answer this question; "What makes, or has made you, happy?" and become a Happiness Agent
- You earn some "Points Of Presence" (POP)
- You invest your Points in the city of your choice
- You spead the Virus of Happiness around the world.
What is the virus of happiness and how it works?
About Happython
Happython was founded in 1998 on this simple question: "What makes you, or has made you, happy?".
The answers of many people were printed and then exposed-pinned on clothes dryers called "Porte-Bonheurs".
These exhibitions took place in galleries, public places, post offices and finally on the web.
The idea of a Happening Record of happy moments has germinated: the Happython and the Happiness Virus have been created!
For more than 20 years, tens of thousands of people between the ages of 2 and 109 from all over the world have testified about what makes them happy.
Now it’s your turn!
The answers of many people were printed and then exposed-pinned on clothes dryers called "Porte-Bonheurs".
These exhibitions took place in galleries, public places, post offices and finally on the web.
The idea of a Happening Record of happy moments has germinated: the Happython and the Happiness Virus have been created!
For more than 20 years, tens of thousands of people between the ages of 2 and 109 from all over the world have testified about what makes them happy.
Now it’s your turn!
What makes them or has made them happy?
What makes me happy is to have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.
Chang-Hun , 23 years old, Bastia (France)I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.
Marcella , 37 years old, Cagliari (Italy)
What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.
Maud , 21 years old, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois (France)What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.
Younès , 5 years old, Saint-Malo (France)What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.
Louis , 88 years old, Chatellerault (France)What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!
Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.
Nelly , 26 years old, Nantes (France)For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.
Mina , 30 years old, Tizi Ouzou (Algérie)What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.
Lora , 18 years old, Versailles (France)
What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !
Catherine , 36 years old, Mons (Belgique)What made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.
Patrice , 40 years old, Paris (France)
I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.
Sanaa , 25 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)What makes me happy now is to see the people who think of me.
Isabelle , 29 years old, Wavre (Belgique)What makes me happy is that I'm in good health, I'm active, I've got good morals, and I rarely get angry!
Brahim , 36 years old, Agadir (Maroc)When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.
What makes me happy is to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.
Christelle , 25 years old, Nivelles (Belgique)What makes me happy is when there is music on the streets or in the metro. It gives me the impression that the quick steps of hurried people are in rhythm on the tempo, like an urban choreography !
Sandy , 19 years old, Toulouse (France)
What makes me happy is seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython
Sidney , 21 years old, Paris (France)After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.
Myriam , 19 years old, Longjumeau (France)
What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.
Arthur , 18 years old, Toulouse (France)What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.
Sofiane , 30 years old, Béjaïa (Algérie)To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.
Mohamed-Amine , 19 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.
Axelle , 21 years old, Lille (France)Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself
The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!
Laure , 34 years old, Blois (France)What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.
Agnès , 53 years old, Ayvelles (France)
My relationship makes me very happy. I really have the impression that I create that every day. What allowed me to live this relationship, was when I started to respect myself and to listen to myself. Of course the other person senses that and naturally comes to you without effort. Afterwards the secret is not to tie the net, not to become a living prison, but on the contrary to open up the space with kind attention and love. Programme for a beautiful relationship: - Respect it – Listen to oneself (and the other too !) – Encourage light thoughts towards the other – Continue as if you were alone - Love the other person tenderly - Have fun together.
What makes me happy is to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.
Duggy , 20 years old, Pantin (France)What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.
Younès , 5 years old, Saint-Malo (France)What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.
Didier , 34 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is the happiness of others surrounding me.
Andrade , 52 years old, Lisbonne (Portugal)When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.
The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.
Saadane , 31 years old, Ferdjioua (Algérie)Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.
What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!
Greg , 20 years old, Nice (France)
What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.
Kevin , 19 years old, Chatenay-Malabry (France)What makes me happy!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.
Mary , 17 years old, Terrebonne (Canada)One of the things I like to do is ….don't laugh at me ! It is to take off the shell of hard-boiled eggs. I adore that and it makes me happy.
Lilou , 33 years old, Montréal (Canada)Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.
Fathi , 45 years old, Sfax (Tunisie)What made me happy was being born into softness, joy and love, and knowing that when I open my door, all of it spreads out to the entire world.
Jessica , 18 years old, Bordeaux (France)What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…
Samuel , 28 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.
Pierre , 68 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.
Chantal , 37 years old, Tervuren (Belgique)
What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.
Anna , 45 years old, Naples (Italie)My cousing Mathilde, 3 and a half years old, was skeptical when we told her, after school, that her little sister had been born during the day. But if you had seen her when she finally met Alice, she was ovewhelmed with joy !!!
Angélique , 23 years old, Chambly (France)Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.
Ahmed , 50 years old, Oran (Algérie)What made me happy was my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.
Angéline , 22 years old, Evry (France)Whenever I start to really like a person, I look at them straight in the eyes and I tell them that I love them (which is always true) : the glint that I see shine in their eyes, sometimes only for a fraction of a second, fills me with joy, and I am happy.
Louis , 47 years old, Lyon (France)What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…
Lucienne , 85 years old, Chatellerault (France)What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.
Steven , 33 years old, Rivière-du-Loup (Canada)To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.
Marie-Émilie , 54 years old, Bruxelles (Belgique)What makes me happy is life in general Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...
Céline , 33 years old, Montréal (Canada)0n Saint Valentin's night I decided to make love with a 40-year-old man. I was his little princess, I desired him so much that I was afraid. I was trembling. He made love with me as none had ever done . On that night I saw the wolf : happy.
Amira , 25 years old, Paris (France)What made me happy was to make a break in my job in order not to work any longer, to decide to care about myself and now to give priority to my happiness.
Béatrice , 51 years old, Bruxelles (Belgique)What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.
Gentiane , 56 years old, Bordeaux (France)
Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.
Kamila , 28 years old, Marseille (France)I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.
A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.
Françoise , 22 years old, Vietri di Potenza (Italie)