Lifestyle choices (based on what she has written here), not life experiences. That was my wording. Please respond to what I've actually written.
Based on what she's written here, she really seems to live the kind of life that suits her. But maybe I shouldn't have written the last paragraph as it probably sounded like it assumed too much about your comment. The purpose of "by the way" was to communicate that I wasn't referring to you. I failed at that.