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
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 prepare a good meal when my son comes home.
Jean-Luc , 52 years old, Garde (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)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)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 the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.
Lulu , 21 years old, Aubenas (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 ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.
Samia , 24 years old, Nabeul (Tunisie)
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
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 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 now is to see the people who think of me.
Isabelle , 29 years old, Wavre (Belgique)What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !
Catherine , 36 years old, Mons (Belgique)What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.
Agnès , 53 years old, Ayvelles (France)I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.
Mariem , 23 years old, Agadir (Maroc)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)
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)Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.
Mélanie , 21 years old, Toulouse (France)
What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!
Isabelle , 28 years old, Drummondville (Canada)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 spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.
Fabrice , 18 years old, Marseille (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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.
Soraya , 28 years old, Bobigny (France)What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.
Jeanne , 27 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 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 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 have been able to get a job on my own.
Daniela , 32 years old, Ancône (Italie)What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.
Christelle , 31 years old, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)What made me happy...I'm going to be very original: the birth of my son! When they put him on my stomach and I saw his face for the first time.
Marie , 28 years old, Toulon (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 the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…
Hilm-Lamiae , 35 years old, Fès (Maroc)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)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)
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 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)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 finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.
Didier , 34 years old, Paris (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)
What makes me happy is leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !
Jean-Steeve , 23 years old, Bordeaux (France)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 makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.
Rabah , 31 years old, Grenoble (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...
Jeanne , 46 years old, Montréal (Canada)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 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 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 are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.
Raked , 22 years old, Stockholm (Suède)
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)I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.
Mustapha , 56 years old, Oran (Algérie)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)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
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 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)Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.
Céline , 22 years old, Langoiran (France)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)What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.
Louis , 88 years old, Chatellerault (France)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)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)
0n Saint Valentin's night I decided to make love with a 40-year-old man. I was his little princess, I desired him so much that I was afraid. I was trembling. He made love with me as none had ever done . On that night I saw the wolf : happy.
Amira , 25 years old, Paris (France)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)