Galina Bozhik

I am a very cosmopolitan person. I’ve never had any problems with adapting to new places, doesn’t matter where it is. I feel at home everywhere, as long as there’s someone close by my side.

I love people and interacting with them. My dad is a retired army officer. We’d done a lot of moving around from one garrison to another, so at a very young age I was already used to having to constantly change schools, teachers, and friends. Thanks to that, I can now easily find common language with anyone, regardless of their social rank.

I don’t like being left alone for too long, but when I have a moment, I love engaging into self-analysis, trying to get to know myself. I even ask myself questions and answer them. It can be a very useful thing to do. There may be a lot of people willing to give you an ear, but those willing to understand you are few.

I got to learn about the phases of a loving relationship the hard way. My love story isn’t much different from any other one, where romance recedes gradually, and then the time comes to lose the rose-coloured glasses. It feels like you’re naked. But is that really such a bad thing? Now we love and accept each other the way we are. What next? We’ll have to wait and see.

One thing I’m sure of: people who love each other are hooked on each other.

I hold a degree in law. After I’d graduated from the university and spent a few years working as a legal adviser, I realized that it’s not for me. Corrupt courts and bureaucracy, joint responsibility… That was horrible! So I decided to save my karma and go for a complete change of occupation: went to Turkey for half a year to work as an animator (laughs).

I don’t like being criticised. Some people might find it stimulating — you think I’m useless?! I’ll show you what I’m capable of, all of you!!! The best stimulus for me is encouragement. The only situation when I accept criticism adequately is when it comes from someone who is very close to me, someone whose opinion I value.

I don’t like being lazy, but, to be honest, I do it remarkably often. On the other hand, every now and again this laziness of mine gets interrupted by long periods of workaholism.

I believe that we should learn from our mistakes. That’s what life experience is about.

A woman must maintain the air of mystery. My love thinks that he knows me well, but he is wrong. Sometimes it feels like I’m one big mystery I cannot myself figure out.

I once woke up in the middle of the night because it felt as if my thoughts rhymed in my head. So I got up and wrote it down on a piece of paper as if following someone’s dictation. When I read it in the morning, it turned out to be a poem. It might not have sounded anywhere near Pushkin’s ones, but wasn’t too bad at all.

I am so happy I’ve quit smoking. I keep discovering advantages of it. I don’t have to carry a special base in my cosmetics bag anymore to refresh the skin on my face. I don’t have to explain to my love who isn’t a smoker why at a party I have to rush off to the toilet every fifteen minutes. I don’t have to try and fit a whole bunch of chewing gum pellets into my mouth before opening the front door. I’m always feeling great. And you should see how much money it saves me! As the saying goes, rather be healthy and rich, than poor and sick (smiles).

I am very kind-hearted. I believe it to be one of my virtues. Bitchiness is not in my character. I don’t see why women want to be “bad girls”. I do, of course, feel that way at certain moments, but that’s not something I’d discuss in an interview (laughs).

One of women’s main advantages and disadvantages at the same time — is the simultaneous working of the two hemispheres of the brain. A woman can keep working, uninterrupted by the thoughts of the morning conversation, beautiful whether, or the dress she’s going to wear for the party that evening, at the same time paying attention to everything that’s happening around.

A short observation on men and women — they’ve swapped bodies.

There are no lost opportunities, the way I’d put it, they just haven’t been realized yet. It’s never too late to start something from scratch.

I try to avoid being obsessed with my imperfections as well as wasting effort hoping to fight them. I prefer to concentrate on developing my virtues.

I want to have ambitions. If you believe in something and wish it to happen from the very bottom of your HEART, it will one day come true, be it a good or bad thing. It’s just a question of time. When? There are no coincidences.