Smelling the scent of my children 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
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?
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 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 really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.
Nathalie , 30 years old, Saint-Hyacinthe (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 when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”
Magalie , 23 years old, Marrakech (Maroc)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 ? 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 to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!
I have just come out of a coma. Here it is : happiness is to be alive again.
Laura , 38 years old, Lille (France)A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.
Françoise , 22 years old, Vietri di Potenza (Italie)What makes me happy is seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.
Vincent , 25 years old, Madrid (Espagne)What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.
Christine , 35 years old, Liège (Belgique)Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.
Kamila , 28 years old, Marseille (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)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)What makes me happy is seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.
Soraya , 28 years old, Bobigny (France)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 made me happy was rowing with my father one night with a full moon, at 4 in the morning, in the Parana delta in Argentina.
Eugénie , 27 years old, Buenos Aires (Argentine)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)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...
Sylvie , 35 years old, Marieville (Canada)The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.
Saadane , 31 years old, Ferdjioua (Algérie)What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.
Ophélie , 21 years old, Valenciennes (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)I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.
Marcella , 37 years old, Cagliari (Italy)What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.
Jeanne , 27 years old, Paris (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)Happiness now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.
Agnès , 50 years old, Charleroi (Belgique)This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)
Marie , 31 years old, Paris (France)
What made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!
Benjamin , 22 years old, Romainville (France)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 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)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)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)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 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? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !
Catherine , 36 years old, Mons (Belgique)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 made me happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.
Valérie , 21 years old, Liège (Belgique)
What makes me happy is to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.
What makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.
Christophe , 34 years old, Neuville-en-Ferrain (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 makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.
Guillaume , 25 years old, Caen (France)The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.
Stéphanie , 21 years old, Québec (Canada)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 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 finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…
Julien , 19 years old, Rennes (France)
Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.
Hamed , 35 years old, Marseille (France)What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!
Charlotte , 17 years old, Amiens (France)What makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.
Lucie , 33 years old, Deux-Montagnes (Canada)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.
What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.
Agnès , 53 years old, Ayvelles (France)What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !
Vanessa , 21 years old, Rome (Italie)My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.
Thomas , 10 years old, Mons-en-Baroeul (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 finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.
Didier , 34 years old, Paris (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)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.
To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.
Mohamed-Amine , 19 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)