Hippie Days

Today I talked with a fellow server at work . I asked her what her life was like (she doesn't attend a college) I asked her this because she's always smiling, always laughing. Always bouncing around with a messy bun and no bra...a hippie. I asked her how her life is so fruitful and if she regrets not going to college. This is the gist of what I was told:
"I don't regret not going. In fact, now that I'm older I'm finding that I have interests I didn't have back then...for example, I really want to take a photography class! You know, I took a year at a community college and it just wasn't for me..like a gut instinct. That's what my mom taught us growing up, and I'm so thankful she brought us up this way. She taught us to live by instinct, to follow them. I'm so content India, I'm in a really good place in my life. What I do is I work for a living so that I can travel all around the world. I backpacked through New Zealand for a month alone. No friends, no family, no nothing. Just me, wandering around the open space. My brothers are musicians and they bar tend on the side. One of my brothers is thirty-two and he's just going back to college because he realized how much he needed to learn to further his music career, but both are very happy with their lives, playing gigs etc..There needs to be more people like me and you India. More people who aren't so caught up in the stress that society puts on us and who just would like to live their lives. I am fully supportive of you." That's the gist, we talked for about an hour and I could tell that both of us were relieved that the subject came up. I won't base everything off of what she told me today, but you should see this girl. She lives happily because she made a decision to be happy. She took her life into her own hands. She's in love, she has a place, she has enough to get by and then some, she has friends, family etc...It felt good to talk. I'm not sure what I'll be doing. My mom sent a second email to tell me that she understands that college isn't for everyone, but that I must have a plan so that I'm not eating leftovers out of a back alley way trashcan. That's reasonable.