What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.
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 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.
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 ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.
Damien , 24 years old, Lille (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 seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.
Samya , 17 years old, Mohammédia (Maroc)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 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)
What makes me happy is getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.
Adrien , 18 years old, Marseille (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)
This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)
Marie , 31 years old, Paris (France)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)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 made me happy is an angel on the web who gave me a lot of happiness and love and I can't forget…
Marlène , 55 years old, Liège (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)My first contact with her, my hands on her marvelous body, our first heartfelt words, our first steps along the Rhine to exchange, a little timidly, our visions of the world
Boris , 18 years old, Strasbourg (France)What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.
Lorenzo , 23 years old, Milan (Italie)
For a very long time I have wanted to play a musical instrument while avoiding the forbidding aspect of learning the solfeggio. By some wonderful chance, I saw a photo of a man. Playing the tampoura in the desert, the flash !
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!!!
Happiness was when my adoptive brother and sister found their biological mother and also the 26th of August when I knew that I was cured of my cancer.
What makes me happy is the idea of not waking up early in the morning, not taking the bus to school, not working, because studying too much can kill, but I do it anyway, I'm still happy.
Thomas , 15 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)Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !
Lolie , 21 years old, Paris (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 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)
Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!
Fatia , 24 years old, Sidi Bel Abbès (Algérie)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 is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.
Lulu , 21 years old, Aubenas (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)For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.
Katie , 46 years old, Bruxelles (Belgique)Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.
Mélanie , 21 years old, Toulouse (France)I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.
Soade , 40 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)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)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
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 my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.
Lilou , 21 years old, Paris (France)
My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!
Nacer , 34 years old, Chlef (Algérie)What makes me happiest is the fact that a child can be born from me and that one day I'll have little toes in my belly...
Claire , 22 years old, Montréal (Canada)What makes me happy is to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!
What makes me happy is the enthusiasm I feel when I'm doing my work properly. I think that living for your vocation is the best way to be happy.
Aderrazak , 31 years old, Alger (Algérie)What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.
Stéphane , 24 years old, Gradignan (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 that my scientific experiments are progressing.
Amira , 26 years old, Monastir (Tunisie)
What makes me happy is snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.
Valentin , 8 years old, Mons-en-Baroeul (France)What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.
Damien , 24 years old, Lille (France)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 this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…
Heïdi , 21 years old, Villeurbanne (France)I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.
Sam , 25 years old, Toulon (France)What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.
Jeff , 22 years old, Marseille (France)What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.
Caroline , 21 years old, Namur (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 !!!
What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.
Hélène , 30 years old, Lyon (France)My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.
Thomas , 10 years old, Mons-en-Baroeul (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)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)feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.
Brigitte , 49 years old, Nivelles (Belgique)What makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.
Emilienne , 97 years old, Mons-en-Baroeul (France)What makes me happy is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.
Noël , 24 years old, Toulouse (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)
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)I like eating spaghetti and curly lettuce with some surimi, I like cuddles and playing with my friends, it makes me happy.
Olympia , 5 years old, Champigny-sur-Marne (France)