Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me 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
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, 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 happy is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.
Cécile , 16 years old, Orleans (France)What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !
Vanessa , 21 years old, Rome (Italie)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 that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.
Clémentine , 18 years old, Gennevilliers (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 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)It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.
Guylaine , 38 years old, Montréal (Canada)
What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.
Damien , 24 years old, Lille (France)What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.
Manon , 36 years old, Verdun (France)
What makes me happy!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.
Mary , 17 years old, Terrebonne (Canada)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)What makes me happy is returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!
Elodie , 17 years old, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (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 to dream and imagine things about battles and love.
Younès , 5 years old, Saint-Malo (France)My 14 years old son has a very worn stuffed bear and I hadn't been able to find one just like it to replace it. Today, I search online and I finally found it. I order four in advance and I feel like the happiest of all mothers.
Chloé , 22 years old, Reims (France)What makes me happy is feeling so small in front of a stormy ocean, smelling the spray on my face : I simply feel content, and I realize the futility of all my little everyday worries.
Soizic , 24 years old, Montréal (Canada)
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 makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.
Jean-Luc , 52 years old, Garde (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)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)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.
I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.
What has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.
Rida , 55 years old, Sfax (Tunisie)What makes me happy is going to the Happython site every day, reading the testimonies of people filled with happiness ready to break up the sadness, to put my little foot on the wall, too. That puts sunshine in my eyes for the rest of the day.
Céline , 18 years old, Toulouse (France)
What makes me happy is that people read the little Happython phrases that I cut out of the newspaper and paste on the walls in my bathrooms. Even Charlotte, who is preschool, sometimes takes more than twenty minutes.
Maïwenn , 28 years old, Champigny-sur-Marne (France)
What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.
Manon , 36 years old, Verdun (France)My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…
Silvia , 23 years old, Pombal (Portugal)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 makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.
Sofiane , 30 years old, Béjaïa (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 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 is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.
Bertrand , 23 years old, Bordeaux (France)
What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.
Kevin , 19 years old, Chatenay-Malabry (France)What makes me happy is thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.
Isabelle , 21 years old, Toulouse (France)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 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 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)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 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)It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.
Guylaine , 38 years old, Montréal (Canada)
What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.
Poly , 29 years old, Paris (France)What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.
Noélie , 16 years old, Mons (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 now is to see the people who think of me.
Isabelle , 29 years old, Wavre (Belgique)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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.
Soraya , 28 years old, Bobigny (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)
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)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 seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.
Vincent , 25 years old, Madrid (Espagne)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 chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.
Mélanie , 20 years old, Toulon (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 the happiness of others surrounding me.
Andrade , 52 years old, Lisbonne (Portugal)
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)