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!
Chantal
, 40 years old, Paris (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
Christin
, 50 years old, Zurich (Suisse)
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.
Eddy
, 23 years old, Noisy-le-Grand (France)
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.
Danielle
, 33 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.
Adèle
, 80 years old, Bealencourt (France)
What makes me happy is to be on holiday.
Lucile
, 9 years old, Peyraud (France)
What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation
Niklos
, 22 years old, Brunswick (Allemagne)
What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.
Emeline
, 17 years old, Nimes (France)
The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless
Sylvie
, 39 years old, Bezons (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.
Patrick
, 31 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.
Nathalie
, 27 years old, Bezons (France)
Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.
Rachel
, 28 years old, Courbevoie (France)
The purchase of a house in the country made me happy. It gave me a goal.
Martine
, 43 years old, Argenteuil (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.
Fouzia
, 30 years old, Puteaux (France)
Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.
Karine
, 20 years old, Tremblay-en-France (France)
Nothing makes me happier than to create something with my own hands, to prepare some tempting meal that we can all share together later, or to sew cushions myself. There is a magic in creating, making, concocting something with ones own hands. It is a proof that our hands are just an extension of our thoughts.
Farida
, 25 years old, Tremblay-en-France (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
Marie-Thérèse
, 56 years old, Paris (France)
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 !!!
Caroline
, 56 years old, Paris (France)
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...
Agnès
, 45 years old, Noisy-le-Grand (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.
Johnny
, 23 years old, Nantes (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.
Soade
, 29 years old, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)
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)
Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.
Aline
, 45 years old, Villepinte (France)
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)
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)
Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.
Kamila
, 28 years old, Marseille (France)
What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !
Christelle
, 21 years old, Pont-Saint-Pierre (France)
Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.
Mary
, 21 years old, Aix-en-Provence (France)
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)
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 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)
The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.
Prisca
, 26 years old, Brunoy (France)
What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.
Lulu
, 21 years old, Aubenas (France)
This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)
Marie
, 31 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.
Isabelle
, 21 years old, Toulouse (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 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 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 having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.
Sandra
, 27 years old, Paris (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 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 getting to use the internet !
Jean-Claude
, 68 years old, Bagneres-de-Bigorre (France)
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)
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)
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 makes me happy is to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…
Heïdi
, 21 years old, Villeurbanne (France)
What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.
Aysel
, 20 years old, Macon (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 seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »
Raphaël
, 20 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »
Nicolas
, 18 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)
What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.
Frédéric
, 21 years old, Strasbourg (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 is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.
Mélanie
, 20 years old, Toulon (France)
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 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)
So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.
Florence
, 21 years old, Paris (France)
What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !
Carole
, 18 years old, Toulouse (France)
What makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.
Julie
, 20 years old, Lyon (France)
What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.
Charlotte
, 16 years old, Strasbourg (France)
