Kathrin Backhaus - That´s How She 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!

16/02/2011

 
Kathrin Backhaus does a lot for
guiding dogs; © private

Name: Kathrin Backhaus
Age: 48
City: Berlin
Occupation: Pensioner
Handicap: Blind

REHACARE.de talked to the blind Kathrin Backhaus from a German association for visually impaired people about happiness, her desires and a farewell to a beloved person.

REHACARE.de: What makes you get up in the morning?
Kathrin Backhaus: My dog

REHACARE.de: What is your favourite place and why?
Kathrin Backhaus: The water, the sea – they are so vast

REHACARE.de: Who or what impresses you?
Kathrin Backhaus: People who run a tight ship

REHACARE.de: What is your most valuable possession?
Kathrin Backhaus: My dog and my life

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up with?
Kathrin Backhaus: With disrespectful and ignorant people

REHACARE.de: What makes you relax the most?
Kathrin Backhaus: My flat where I can be alone

REHACARE.de: What makes you happy?
Kathrin Backhaus: A nice and attentive pedestrian or a piece of cake

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Kathrin Backhaus: Yes

REHACARE.de: Name three things that make for a fulfilled life!
Kathrin Backhaus: Health, people around us, contentment

 
Kathrin lovingly calls her guiding dog "Dicker" - this means "fat one"; © private

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt blown away by something?
Kathrin Backhaus: When my partner died

REHACARE.de: What questions would you like to know the answer to?
Kathrin Backhaus: The question “Why“ – it appears so often in life.

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt like hiding from something?
Kathrin Backhaus: That has not happened for a long time.

REHACARE.de: What makes a person rich?
Kathrin Backhaus: Being happy with yourself

REHACARE.de: What is your philosophy of life?
Kathrin Backhaus: Every day is a new start and it is worth trying again and again.

REHACARE.de: Who else should we be asking these questions of?
Kathrin Backhaus: I have already forwarded it…