What makes me happy is seeing my parents together.
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?
My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:
Marie-Lise , 43 years old, Forestville (Canada)
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)This is great !! The virus of happiness !! I'd like to give you my own definition of happiness... : “Happinees is like a butterfly. If you run after it, it will escape... But if you let it be, it will land softly on your shoulder...”
Louise , 42 years old, Chicoutimi (Canada)What makes me happy is to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way
What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.
Pauline , 20 years old, Toulouse (France)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)
What makes me happy is my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.
Odile , 45 years old, Renay (France)
I adore my little kitten's caresses. That makes me happy.
Karma , 28 years old, Palma de Majorque (Espagne)What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.
Carole , 27 years old, Lyon (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!!!
What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.
Etienne , 21 years old, paris (France)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 feeling so small in front of a stormy ocean, smelling the spray on my face : I simply feel content, and I realize the futility of all my little everyday worries.
Soizic , 24 years old, Montréal (Canada)
What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.
Leïla , 29 years old, Sousse (Tunisie)The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.
Sabrina , 27 years old, Mitry-Mory (France)What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.
Raked , 22 years old, Stockholm (Suède)What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.
Thierry , 47 years old, Arradon (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)My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up
The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...
Marie , 23 years old, Thetford Mines (Canada)What makes me happy is seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.
Lilou , 21 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.
It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.
Victoire , 28 years old, Paris (France)
What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.
Séverine , 27 years old, Bordeaux (France)What makes me happy is learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?
Pierre , 18 years old, Marseille (France)What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.
Petrouchka , 21 years old, Marseille (France)What makes me happy is to eat braised fish with my fingers, in the shade of a tree, in the Ivory Coast, and to watch the sunrise on Buttes Chaumont Park.
Aline , 28 years old, Paris (France)What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.
Hazar , 26 years old, Tunis (Tunisie)What made me happy was when she showed me the stars and blew on my neck to warm me up.
Rémi , 19 years old, Ferte-Bernard (France)What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.
Stéphanie , 24 years old, Rome (Italie)What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.
Jean-Luc , 52 years old, Garde (France)To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).
Emilie , 22 years old, Montpellier (France)What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.
Mélanie , 20 years old, Toulon (France)What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.
Liane , 54 years old, La Louvière (Belgique)What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.
Mado , 43 years old, Verviers (Belgique)What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.
Younès , 5 years old, Saint-Malo (France)Financial independance gives me a peace of heart and a certain serenity and the fact of being loved comforts me. Loving a man and receiving love makes me forget my worries and brings me pleasure.
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)
I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.
Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.
Angela , 40 years old, Benidorm (Espagne)
What makes me happy is making up with a colleague ! ( a little daily pleasure)
Christian , 44 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.
Cynthia , 18 years old, Shawinigan (Canada)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)What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.
Claude , 35 years old, Rosny-sous-Bois (France)The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.
What really makes me happiest is seeing happy people around me, and what makes my heart smile is sharing my happiness with others.
Suzie , 31 years old, Candiac (Canada)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)What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment
So , 22 years old, Levallois-Perret (France)What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.
Stéphane , 24 years old, Gradignan (France)
What makes me happy is the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…
Clément , 20 years old, Lyon (France)What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.
Kadi , 18 years old, Madrid (Espagne)What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…
Julien , 19 years old, Rennes (France)What makes me happy is seeing all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…
Alex , 20 years old, Nice (France)What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.
Yves , 55 years old, Eragny (France)What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.
Maxime , 28 years old, Amiens (France)What makes me happy is returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!
Elodie , 17 years old, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France)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)What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.
Ronan , 19 years old, Marseille (France)
What made me happy ? It is probably slight …I met a totally exceptional man on a chat one year and ten days ago (de visu).
Marianne , 38 years old, Liège (Belgique)What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.
Lorenzo , 22 years old, Paris (France)