I agree 100%.

I've chosen a life of less work, less stuff and therefore less money. I spend a lot of my time alone on big trips around the world, and out in the wilderness. I'm immensely more happy than I was sitting at a desk watching my life go by without really being alive.

I get a lot of this attitude about how I must be "running from something" or I'm "throwing my life away".

I think it's a symptom of our modern "society" that it needs to put down anyone who chooses not to be drowning in it.

Which, of course, makes me want to distance myself from it even more.