The road is leading me

Galina Bushova, Russia, Tomsk

She could manage all her projects in any place in the world, but to her own surprise she keeps living in Tomsk. Galina is full of energy, charming, unconventional, open-minded and straightforward; I liked her during the very first minutes of our unexpected and a little chaotic conversation. On the tenth minute I didn’t doubt that in front of me there was a successful yet very humane business lady loving her business with all her heart. On the fifteenth minute I couldn’t help asking “Are you a happy person?” “Yes!”.

- Sometimes it seems like a pathological state, “a built-in happiness pill”. The feeling of happiness at the present moment.  I expand the comfort zone around me: I’d share positive attitude with one person and he would bring it to his family, his child would go to school and give it to his friend. It’s like rays of sunshine.

I never thought what chain of events brought me to what I am now; I have always been working, working and working. I like to travel, so I opened a travel agency. I like to read a lot, so I began to publish a magazine. I like talking to people who travel, so I give them a place to express their thoughts. It is important to me that they talk “heart to heart”. What a person walking along the equator is feeling is much more interesting to me than pure facts: length of the equator, time of dawn, time of dusk.

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