Raul Krauthausen - That´s How He Rolls

What makes other people actually happy in life? If you ever wondered, you have come to the right place. In regular intervals REHACARE.de asks a varity of people always the same questions. What results from that? Read for yourself!

05/01/2011

 
Raul Krauthausen; © Sozialhelden e.V.

Name: Raul Krauthausen
Age: 30
City: Berlin / Germany
Occupation: Project manager
Handicap: Brittle bone disease (Osteogenesis imperfecta)

REHACARE.de talked to Raul Krauthausen, who is socially engaged, about happiness, his desires and friends.

REHACARE.de: What makes you get up in the morning?
Raul Krauthausen: My projects, friends and challenges placed on me or that I place on myself.

REHACARE.de: What is your favourite place and why?
Raul Krauthausen: Berlin, because it is the most colourful, most open and most liberal city I know.

REHACARE.de: Who or what impresses you?
Raul Krauthausen: Everybody who has creative ideas and is willing to give their all for them. Many people have ideas, but only a few people put them into action.

REHACARE.de: What is your most valuable possession?
Raul Krauthausen: My friends, my family and my lust for life.

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up with?
Raul Krauthausen: With people that whine, complain and forever put the blame on other people.

REHACARE.de: What makes you relax the most?
Raul Krauthausen: A great cup of coffee on a Sunday morning.

REHACARE.de: What makes you happy?
Raul Krauthausen: To be surrounded by friends – to work with them, to celebrate with them or simply just to be together with them.

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Raul Krauthausen: My old magazines.

 
A freshly brewed coffee and a newspaper - that's a relaxed way to start into a Sunday; © Danny Beier/panthermedia.net

REHACARE.de: Name three things that make for a fulfilled life!
Raul Krauthausen: To have at least one mission in life. Friends, family and serenity.

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt blown away by something?
Raul Krauthausen: When in August somebody threw a party for me and I had no idea about the preparations leading up to it.

REHACARE.de: What questions would you like to know the answer to?
Raul Krauthausen: There are so many questions.

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt like hiding from something?
Raul Krauthausen: When I was ambushed in the middle of this year and my cell phone got stolen.

REHACARE.de: What makes a person rich?
Raul Krauthausen: Patience, serenity, friends and the wonderful feeling to do something meaningful.

REHACARE.de: What is your philosophy of life?
Raul Krauthausen: You only live once.

REHACARE.de: Who else should we be asking these questions of?
Raul Krauthausen: Thomas Quasthoff

Translated by Elena O'Meara.