Andreas Pröve - 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!

18/08/2010

 
Andreas Pröve; © Markus Mauthe

Name: Andreas Pröve
Age: 52
City: Wathlingen, Germany
Occupation: Book author / Travel journalist
Handicap: Paraplegic

REHACARE.de talked to the globetrotter Andreas Pröve about happiness, his desires and fascinating places.

REHACARE.de: What makes you get up in the morning?
Andreas Pröve: To receive a gift, that is to say the new day. And to achieve the most out of this day.

REHACARE.de: What is your favorite place and why?
Andreas Pröve: My favorite place is always where my surroundings excite me, astonish me or where I can learn something. It can therefore be anywhere in the world.

REHACARE.de: Who or what impresses you?
Andreas Pröve: People, who go to their outer limits to realise their ideas.

REHACARE.de: What is your most valuable possession?
Andreas Pröve: An insatiable curiosity.

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up with?
Andreas Pröve: Naggers

REHACARE.de: What makes you relax the most?
Andreas Pröve: Sunbathing on the lawn in front of the Taj Mahal.

REHACARE.de: What makes you happy?
Andreas Pröve: When I am completely merged into something I do, when I get into the flow and lose all sense of time during a work rush.

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Andreas Pröve: My inhibition to ask strangers for help.

REHACARE.de: Name three things that make for a fulfilled life!
Andreas Pröve: You only need one thing: Passion for all that you do.

 
On his trips through the whole world Andreas Pröve gets to know a lot of interesting places; © Nagender Chhikara

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt blown away by something?
Andreas Pröve: When last year in front of my eyes, a Hindu pilgrim poked an iron rod, which was as thick as a thumb, through his cheek without there being any blood.

REHACARE.de: What questions would you like to know the answer to?
Andreas Pröve: I have no questions.

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt like hiding from something?
Andreas Pröve: Very conventient: When during a trip through Iran, I was staring into three gun barrels and realized that I had just taken a picture of the Nuclear Research Center in Natanz.

REHACARE.de: What makes a person rich?
Andreas Pröve: To live each day like it was your last.

REHACARE.de: What is your philosophy of life?
Andreas Pröve: "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well" (by travel writer Stevenson)

REHACARE.de: Who else should we be asking these questions of?
Andreas Pröve: Andreas Altmann

Translated by Elena O'Meara.