What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.
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 when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.
What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.
Lora , 18 years old, Versailles (France)I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.
Micka , 22 years old, Lyon (France)What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.
Hélène , 30 years old, Lyon (France)Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !
Marie-Agnès , 45 years old, Montpellier (France)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 finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.
Didier , 34 years old, Paris (France)To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.
Maria-Selva , 26 years old, Madrid (Espagne)
My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!
Nacer , 34 years old, Chlef (Algérie)
A child's spinning top on the carpet. What a pleasure to approach it, having watched it from afar, the memories coming back of those exquisite moments where colours mingled and filled rainbow eyes. I lean over, touch the top and play with it and that simple pleasure warms my heart, it turns, turns, turns...
I'm in college prep, and what makes me happy is that my scores went from 2 over 20 to 4 over 20. I tell myself then, that now I see the fruits of my labors.
Laly , 18 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is the sea. When I see it or when I think about it, I am really comfortable in my own being. Oh yes, it's boring but it's the ocean blue that makes me happy.
Mina , 30 years old, Tizi Ouzou (Algérie)What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.
Catherine , 47 years old, Bruxelles (Belgique)What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.
Meriama , 15 years old, Marrakech (Maroc)
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.
After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.
Myriam , 19 years old, Longjumeau (France)For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...
Manon , 36 years old, Laurentides (Canada)What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health
Lilou , 33 years old, Montréal (Canada)What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.
Cyril , 17 years old, Toulouse (France)What makes me happy is seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.
Samya , 17 years old, Mohammédia (Maroc)What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.
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 having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !
Christelle , 21 years old, Pont-Saint-Pierre (France)What makes me happy is falling in lovein the metro every morning ! Stranger from line 6, if you recognize yourself…
Julia , 18 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.
Delphine , 24 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.
What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.
Annie , 47 years old, Paris (France)I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.
Mariem , 23 years old, Agadir (Maroc)To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.
Mohamed-Amine , 19 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)Yesterday it rained, I went for a walk with Deal along the ocean, we took photos of each other, we kissed each other, we laughed, we warmed up in a pub, and we shared a chocolate cake and a cherry tea.
What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.
Hélène , 20 years old, Toulouse (France)My happiness has already lasted for a long time. It renews itself every morning when I go to sample a cup of tea in one of the many Parisian cafés. It's a moment of pure joy, I let myself lapse into dreams in the ambiance of the cafes, and I can no longer do without it.
Nicole , 57 years old, Paris (France)What made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.
Patrice , 40 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!
43 years old, Waremme (Belgique)What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.
Sophie , 40 years old, Fresnes (France)
What makes me happy: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !
Vanessa , 21 years old, Rome (Italie)I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.
Paula , 29 years old, Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso)Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…
Benoît , 25 years old, Tokyo (Japon)What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.
Frédéric , 21 years old, Strasbourg (France)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 to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.
Christophe , 34 years old, Neuville-en-Ferrain (France)What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.
Josée , 54 years old, Paris (France)What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.
Hervé , 20 years old, Paris (France)Hello everyone, what made me happy this summer was just swimming in the lake with warm sunbeams... letting myself be carried softly away by small waves.I find that that's complete happiness.. it's peace, calm, joy, it's relaxing... it's being happy... and all of that accompanied by my dear husband xxx -ps: the heat is much easier to stand that way hmm...
Sylvie , 35 years old, Marieville (Canada)What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!
Josette , 52 years old, Saint-Nicolas (Belgique)What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.
Amira , 26 years old, Monastir (Tunisie)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)Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…
Rémi , 23 years old, Lille (France)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)What makes me happy is to be at the bottom of a mountain, a hill…watching the top and say to it: “see you soon”… To walk, sweat, breath, sometimes to suffer a little… and reach the top and think: “I've done it, thank you”. Just a challenge with nature. This is one of the most wonderful things in the world.
My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:
Marie-Lise , 43 years old, Forestville (Canada)I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.
Micka , 22 years old, Lyon (France)
What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.
Clémentine , 18 years old, Gennevilliers (France)What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.
Ghania , 27 years old, Alger (Algérie)
I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.
Soade , 40 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)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.
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 doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.
Hélène , 42 years old, Gracefield (Canada)I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…
Siham , 32 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)What makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!
Chantal , 33 years old, Saint-Léonard (Canada)Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.
Hamed , 35 years old, Marseille (France)As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.
Lina , 30 years old, Tigzirt (Algérie)