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.
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?
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 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 doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.
Anna , 45 years old, Naples (Italie)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 seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.
Jonathan , 31 years old, Bordeaux (France)Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.
Mélanie , 21 years old, Toulouse (France)What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…
Mathieu , 22 years old, Toulouse (France)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)Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !
Mary , 21 years old, Aix-en-Provence (France)
The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.
Edmée , 16 years old, Nabeul (Tunisie)
What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.
Christine , 35 years old, Liège (Belgique)What makes me happy is little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.
Carine , 32 years old, Granby (Canada)I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.
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)What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.
Marie-Noëlle , 32 years old, Ham-sous-Varsberg (France)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)
What makes me happy is life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.
Kalina , 23 years old, Laval (Canada)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 ? A bird singing in the morning when I get up.
Thérèse , 47 years old, Charleroi (Belgique)The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.
Saadane , 31 years old, Ferdjioua (Algérie)What makes me happy is to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.
Ana , 22 years old, Lisbonne (Portugal)What makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.
Lucie , 33 years old, Deux-Montagnes (Canada)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, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.
Elodie , 26 years old, Limoges (France)
What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near
Louise , 43 years old, Chicoutimi (Canada)
What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.
Hélène , 30 years old, Lyon (France)What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !
Vanessa , 21 years old, Rome (Italie)What makes me happy : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.
Brigitte , 50 years old, Chatellerault (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
What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.
Agnès , 53 years old, Ayvelles (France)What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.
Karine , 31 years old, Caluire-et-Cuire (France)I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.
Paula , 29 years old, Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso)Yesterday evening, out to see the lights of Lyon, I found myself in the park of la Tête d'Or, on a path with lights and sounds so surreal…and relaxing ! A real moment of happiness after a day of hard work.
Muriel , 44 years old, Lyon (France)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)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 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 makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.
Amira , 26 years old, Monastir (Tunisie)I have just come out of a coma. Here it is : happiness is to be alive again.
Laura , 38 years old, Lille (France)What makes me happy is telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.
Eugène , 21 years old, Dargnies (France)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 to have been able to get a job on my own.
Daniela , 32 years old, Ancône (Italie)What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.
Jocelyne , 40 years old, Lourches (France)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)I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!
Well, what made me happy lately was the surprise to be invited by my friend in a smart restaurant very close by my home where I had wanted to go for a long time but I had not enough money!
Michèle , 45 years old, Montigny-le-Tilleul (Belgique)Brought up and educated in Brazzaville, The Congo, by missionaries. A war has broken out... Everything is destroyed, the town devastated, there is nothing to be found anywhere. However with courage the sisters go back to work, open the nursery and primary schools without any materials. They send out an SOS to ex-pupils of which I am one. Since that time I am running around the shops with my limited means of a retired person. Paints, folding books, etc. etc.... meetings with the people who will carry my packages to Brazza. And in return I receive letters and drawings from little children thanking me and calling me godmother and sometimes mother, this is happiness !!!
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...
Jeanne , 46 years old, Montréal (Canada)What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.
Solange , 31 years old, Lyon (France)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 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 eat everyday with my friends, each bite is for me a breath of life.
Estefania , 18 years old, Lisbonne (Portugal)What makes me happy now is to see the people who think of me.
Isabelle , 29 years old, Wavre (Belgique)One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.
François , 25 years old, Paris (France)What made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!
Benjamin , 22 years old, Romainville (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)
What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.
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 telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.
Nicolas , 22 years old, Nice (France)Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy