What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.
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 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 seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »
Raphaël , 20 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)What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.
Ghania , 27 years old, Alger (Algérie)For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...
Manon , 36 years old, Laurentides (Canada)What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »
Nicolas , 18 years old, Toulouse (France)
What makes me happy is my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.
Odile , 45 years old, Renay (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)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)To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.
Maria-Selva , 26 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, 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 to talk to people and to learn something from them.
Sofiane , 30 years old, Béjaïa (Algérie)My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!
Nacer , 34 years old, Chlef (Algérie)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!!! 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 makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.
Marie-Noëlle , 32 years old, Ham-sous-Varsberg (France)What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…
Lucienne , 85 years old, Chatellerault (France)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)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 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 is telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.
Nicolas , 22 years old, Nice (France)
What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.
Jean-Luc , 52 years old, Garde (France)I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.
Amandine , 21 years old, Madrid (Espagne)What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.
Karine , 31 years old, Caluire-et-Cuire (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)What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.
What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.
Claude , 35 years old, Rosny-sous-Bois (France)What makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !
Jean-Claude , 68 years old, Bagneres-de-Bigorre (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.
Marcelle , 62 years old, Québec (Canada)What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.
Aysel , 20 years old, Macon (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 makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly
Olympia , 32 years old, Paris (France)What makes me happy is that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.
Julie , 39 years old, Bruxelles (Belgique)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 now is to see the people who think of me.
Isabelle , 29 years old, Wavre (Belgique)The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.
Meriem , 24 years old, Béjaïa (Algérie)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)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)Just now (apart from my wonderful family) the position of France, Germany, Russia, China and of course Belgium on the crisis in Irak, which shows there is some hope left. It gives me an immense happiness.
Thierry , 34 years old, Grez-Doiceau (Belgique)I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.
Soade , 40 years old, Casablanca (Maroc)What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.
Josée , 54 years old, Paris (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 be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.
Christelle , 25 years old, Nivelles (Belgique)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 every day, it is to see black slaves'sons and daughters appointed to fairly important positions, in a country where there were schools for Whites and schools for Blacks, buses for Whites and buses for Blacks, just very few decades ago.
Alex , 43 years old, Paris (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 idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.
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 the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.
Kadi , 18 years old, Madrid (Espagne)What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.
Shana , 52 years old, Chambly (Canada)
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 to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.
Duggy , 20 years old, Pantin (France)What made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.
Nathalie , 30 years old, Saint-Hyacinthe (Canada)The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.
Edmée , 16 years old, Nabeul (Tunisie)