On a mission for a life more abundant

Hello fine people of hipforums! I am new here. I would like, if I may, to share my situation... consider it a plea for help from people more experienced.
I am rather unhappy with my current life. At 28 years old I have come to realize that I've been living a life wholly unsatisfactory and lacking in a sense of genuine self. I consider a life without passion and truth to not really be life at all, but simply a biding of time. And that's precisely what I feel I've been doing for years now: biding time, waiting for something more fitting and real to come along. However, I've decided that waiting will not do. I need to get out and change things.
I live in a city that I absolutely do not relate nor fit into; a conservative little hole of rather narrow-minded and unfriendly people. I dress up in uncomfortable drab clothes every day to spend time in businesses where my LLC subcontracts filing work. It has been nearly a decade since I last meandered barefoot through a beautiful place with a head full of pixie dust, feeling free and genuine, at peace with myself.
So I am going to leave everything behind and move, start again. I have only a few thousand dollars, a sharp mind, and a dream of living life abundantly and with beauty. I would like to get into growing and selling herbs and ethnobotanicals; natural health and shamanic type products. I have no idea how to go about doing it but I will figure it out.
I came to this site by way of the hippy haven list of places people have found as good for hippy types.
I have no idea where to get started in figuring out where to go, how to start my new life. If anyone else has had similar experiences I would vastly appreciate any words of advice, tales of how you made the great transition to the hippy life, a life centered around spirit, truth, purpose, and love.
And how the hell do all you wandering hippies make money, lol?
Anyway, sorry if this is kind of a rant, but I'm feeling a little desperate to get going and confused as to what to do to make it happen.
All the best,
iakkos

 

Hello iakkos & Welcome to the forums ,
good to have you here . PEACE,
ps , great intro ,

 

welcome

 

Hi Iakkos, may you find that which calls to you.

Once you move that direction - one of spirit - the outer life will more likely follow your inner changes, and whatever manifests will be best for your growth if you take it for that. I think to center around spirit, and tap into your genuine self is not so much about life style but the inner attitude ... and so, even city life and living on a place that feels blunt and dull can provide places of transformation. You gotta start right here and now. I know this sounds pretty theoretical ... but on the other hand, the experience is yours ... and this may be the most genuine thing ever.

Anyway, change is good !

Be welcome and enjoy this place