#rtl interview

Hi, honey. So, it was a Dutch program (RTL), and the interviewer was asking Harry about a football player who was his favorite when he was younger. The interviewer said, "You looked at him score some goals?" (in English, you'd say, "You watched him.") So, Harry ran with that and answered, "I looked at him. Yeah."

But what made it so gay was his facial expression. 🤣

Q: When are you happy? Do you define happyness in the moment or do you define happyness over longer period?

SV: It's more about the small things [in life]. On my outbound flight, I was flying first class and the lady came with the pralines but I asked her to bring me some chocolate from the economy class. At first, she looked confused - but personally, I prefer milk chocolate over pralines.

That's maybe a dumb example, but I think it's more about the small things. In that moment, the milk chocolate made me happier than the pralines. And I think there are always those small things or moments.

When you look back of course the victory and its meaning and everything.

Q: I meant as the person Sebastian Vettel.

SV: Exactly! The moment when I look down [from the podium] and see how the boys laugh, beam and what [my victory] means to them. So I can give them back something and that's making me really happy. It's less likely about what this means but it's about the moment and to see their reactions.

Making others happy is making me happy. I actually prefer making other people happy. When it comes to me, I'm more reserved and stingy and tell myself ”okay you don't need that” or ”that's not necessary” - but when someone else wants something, I tell them ”okay, that's good” or ”oh yeah, of course”.

Q: And how is it going in private? You once said mowing helps you calm down. Why do you do that? Is being the house husband also making you happy (or feel lucky) that you can completely calm down?

SV: Well ... yeah. Just alone the fact you reached or archived something. It probably sounds stupid when I say ”I mowed for two hours, yes I'm done now” - but that's how it is. You can give back and when you mowed, you can say ”I did that all ok my own". That makes me happy.

Or when I go hiking or just go walking or whatever and when you're on the top of a mountain and you can look down - that's making me happy as well and it feels amazing to look down and think ”you did this on your own”. It's not like I tell everyone on my way back home ”I just was up there and I did that on my own” and I don't really care about the time it took me to do that.

But the fact that I can do it, that I'm allowed to do it, that I'm healthy [that makes me happy] - which is probably quite important when you reach my age and when it sinks in. That I'm free to do things, the I can enjoy the things I do and not everyone is that lucky.

Q: You are a privileged person. You're someone who could buy a lot of things most people can only dream of. Are you still a economical person or how do you live?

SV: I think it's important - at least for me it is - to stay down to earth, to evaluate situations correctly and to not lose track - even if you've got a lot of opportunities. It's somehow funny because lots of people expect you to do those things just because you could. They think [your] life is so special and exclusive and that you've got something to do the whole day. But I think everyone needs to figure out what makes him/her happy and I think that something you should keep in mind.

Of course there is stuff I dreamed of when I was younger and I can buy that stuff now.

Q: For example?

SV: Well I don't know, for example the car you always wanted as a child - it made you happy back then.

Q: Obviously it's a Ferrari.

SV: Of course! For me, it was a F40. Those are milestones that make you happy for a moment.

I'm aware that I'm really lucky with my life. But I think I can count myself really lucky because I can range it now. All those opportunities on the one hand and knowing that those material things can't make you truly happy. Looking left and right is important in my opinion to not lose track and to stay down to earth.

We have the privilege of traveling around the world and you can notice lots of things when you look left and right. Who doesn't notice that he or she has a good life has other things to worry about and isn't self-satisfied.