What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.
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 ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.
Samia , 24 years old, Nabeul (Tunisie)
What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…
Lucienne , 85 years old, Chatellerault (France)To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.
Khaled , 20 years old, Alger (Algérie)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 happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”
Magalie , 23 years old, Marrakech (Maroc)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 to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).
Anna , 45 years old, Naples (Italie)What makes me happy : Luigi who brought me a chocolate egg, only for me !
Vanessa , 21 years old, Rome (Italie)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 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 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 a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.
Agnès , 53 years old, Ayvelles (France)I adore my little kitten's caresses. That makes me happy.
Karma , 28 years old, Palma de Majorque (Espagne)An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.
Aurore , 22 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.
Younès , 5 years old, Saint-Malo (France)
What makes me happy at this moment is that I have got rid of everything in Paris, my job and a hard life, to retire and live in Tunisia at a wonderful man's side.
Françoise , 52 years old, Rades (Tunisie)What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.
Amira , 26 years old, Monastir (Tunisie)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 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, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...
Hélène , 51 years old, Shawinigan (Canada)My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.
Thomas , 10 years old, Mons-en-Baroeul (France)What makes me happy ? Sitting between others, while I feel a little wind on my face and watch the sunset.
Méliza , 19 years old, La Prairie (Canada)What makes me happy is being in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.
Franck , 37 years old, Toulouse (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)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.
What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.
Damien , 24 years old, Lille (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)What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.
Lorenzo , 22 years old, Paris (France)
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 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 to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!
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)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)I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.
Micka , 22 years old, Lyon (France)What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment
So , 22 years old, Levallois-Perret (France)What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.
Liane , 54 years old, La Louvière (Belgique)What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !
Mélanie , 12 years old, Epinay-sous-Senart (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)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 sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.
Etienne , 21 years old, paris (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)What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.
Maud , 21 years old, Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois (France)What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.
Leïla , 29 years old, Sousse (Tunisie)What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…
Samuel , 28 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.
Anna , 45 years old, Naples (Italie)My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…
Silvia , 23 years old, Pombal (Portugal)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 ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.
Samia , 24 years old, Nabeul (Tunisie)What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.
Simon , 13 years old, Lille (France)What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.
Maxime , 28 years old, Amiens (France)What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.
Manon , 36 years old, Verdun (France)
I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.
Paula , 29 years old, Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso)What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.
What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.
Jeanne , 27 years old, Paris (France)