That’s awesome. I’m glad that you know you’re doing what you love. I haven’t been able to figure my life out as early as you, but hopefully I’ll be able to say what you can say pretty soon.

To answer your question, YES, I am absolutely living MY personal dream. Yes, it is true that MY dream “is often associated with societal norms and expectations that we’ve been raised with all of our lives,” but the life I am now living IS what I have always wanted.

I saw a recent book, “Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking: A Guide for Entrepreneurs.” A reviewer said, “This is a great book for new entrepreneurs who want to learn about the common pitfalls of starting a business.”

Another book, “Riding with Stranger” gives some similar sentiments.

“Hitchhiking is an exercise in faith, and the more you trust it, the more it rewards you. . . . Faith is a beautiful thing, if it give you strength to do what you know you should do anyway. The more certain I am that if I take the less secure and more adventurous course the rides will arrive, the better my experiences on the road. It is not easy to keep that faith, and I freely concede that I have gotten a little rusty, a little too prone to stick to the well-traveled highways–but I count it a victory that after all these years I am out here at all. And what holds true on roads of tar and asphalt holds equally true on the metaphorical roads of our lives. How many of my friends, in various ways, decided it was more sensible to buy that bus ticket–signing on for a career that would carry them on a set route to a prescribed destination–and then saw their bus break down and found themselves one day out on the roadside, at a time and place they did not choose?” (p. 43-44)

My main dream is to be a successful entrepreneur, and if I didn’t think this trip would help me get there, I wouldn’t be doing it.