Doing the work you believe in

I had a conversation with a friend today about doing the work you care about and thinking about it first and everything else, meaning money later. For me it is imperative to do the work I believe in with my heart. This is what I am doing now; it doesn't bring me money. But I am happy. My friend says that the love and care do not matter anymore because of where we are.
More than anything I value independence from anyone else and freedom to do my own thing-this is after all is all I want to do-to do my own thing. I have to balance what I want with people I love. I have to balance what I want with the reasonable and controlling me. Right now, all I want is to stop everything and train, and dance, and see where it takes me. i am not giving myself permission to do so. There is this alarm going inside me "no time later, time now, the only time now, i am getting old for this". But instead of getting off my ass and actually starting training, I am sitting for hours in front of computer and watching others dance.