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In fact, that iPhone sitting on the dinner table between us? “It’s Lionsgate’s [the studio behind Allegiant]—they’re like, ‘Here you go! We need to be able to track you.’" While she was traveling, Woodley reveled in the freedom of not being attached to her belongings. “What I found was, the less I had, the less I craved or needed.” By the end of her trip to India, the only clothes she had were practically the ones on her back: “a pair of leggings, a pair of sweats, one long-sleeve shirt, and this shawl,” she says. The lightness she felt was intoxicating. “I think we have such an attachment to ‘Ah, I’m going to need this’ or ‘I should bring this just in case.’ But the most beautiful moments I had were when I was stuck in the rain and had no raincoat and ended up laughing because what could have been an everyday experience of it raining in London turned into this hilarious adventure of being soaking wet and having to borrow someone’s dryer to dry my clothes.”

RELATED: Shailene Woodley's Eco-Beauty Recipes If Woodley seems unusually determined to stay grounded and savor the present moment, it’s easy to understand why. Success—and all its attendant demands—has come fast and furious for the free-spirited actress: At just 24 years old, she’s already checked off more career milestones than most actors do in a lifetime. After starring in the ABC family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, she scored a breakout film role as George Clooney’s daughter in the Academy Award–winning The Descendants and went on to earn teen-cult status with the romantic dramas The Fault in Our Stars and The Spectacular Now. Soon she will also add a cable-TV-binge show to her résumé (the HBO limited series Big Little Lies, with Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon). And, of course, there’s the ongoing series of blockbuster movies about post-apocalyptic Chicago that started with 2014’s Divergent and continued with last year’s Insurgent.

The third installment, Allegiant, opens this month, with the final chapter, Ascendant, due in summer 2017. The last time we saw Woodley’s character, Beatrice “Tris” Prior, she’d just found out that her home city was actually a walled-in experimental haven created by unknown forces 200 years ago. Everyone in town knows that “divergent” citizens like her—the few who possess all five of the futuristic society’s virtues instead of just one—aren’t a threat to survival. cheap rucksacks 60lThey’re vital to human existence. backpack led billboardTris asks her boyfriend, Tobias “Four” Eaton (played by Theo James, this month’s Man of Style), in Insurgent’s final scene.80l backpack with wheels RELATED: Shailene Woodley and Theo James Leave Divergent Grime Behind and Get Glam

It’s a question Woodley herself has been pondering lately. Like many 20-somethings who head off backpacking across South Asia looking for meaning before they settle down, she’s been doing a lot of soul-searching. “We’re so wrapped up in getting somewhere or achieving something that we sometimes skip over the beauty that exists right in front of us,” she says, explaining her desire to be “fully present” in her life. Yet unlike most would-be spiritual junkies her age, she has the added burden of reconciling her Zen leanings with the ego-driven, often narcissistic world of Hollywood. Her main goal, she says, has been “practicing no attachment”—learning to be content in every moment no matter what. “Happiness is not something I need to achieve,” she says. “It’s more about learning to embrace the simple truth that I am happiness.” For more from the actress, where she talks in detail about living a life of beautiful simplicity, pick up the March issue of InStyle, now available on newsstands and digital download.

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their backstory completely destroyed me. Jayson’s daughter, Tatum, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer at the age of 5. And her parents underwent the grueling experience of watching their little girl face chemotherapy, radiation and three surgeries. Fortunately, Tatum laughed her way through it, and made it to the other side like a champ. Eighteen months later, cancerous masses appeared in Tatum’s right lung, and she had to face the entire experience all over again. It was during this second treatment that Tatum received a backpack from a charity in Colorado. The backpack was full of games, crafts and activities; things a child needs to get through the difficult days receiving treatment in a cancer ward. Many parents of pediatric cancer patients don’t necessarily live near the hospital where their children are staying. They may live several counties over, and still have to go to work and tend to their other children. This means that nurses and physicians have to play the role of parents for children going through treatment in the ward.

That bag made a profound difference for Tatum. The gesture touched the Parkers so much so that since Tatum has been cancer-free they’ve devoted all of their spare time to giving “bags of fun” to each of the 350 children diagnosed with cancer annually in the state of Indiana. And they don’t mess around, either. These bags include Leap Pads for the younger kids and an iPod Touch for teenagers. It costs $350 to provide just one bag, and it blows kids’ minds. Tatum, now 14 years old, personally delivers many of these bags herself, bringing “smiles and hope.” The smiles comes from what’s inside of the bag, and the hope comes from this remarkable girl delivering it who beat cancer, not once, but twice. These kids need Tatum, who can empathize with them and cheer them on more than anyone else in the entire world. I’ve had the privilege of helping tell the story of  Tatum’s Bags of Fun with design and print. Because of this I commonly rummage through the hundreds of images of children receiving bags.

I can’t begin to describe to you the looks on their faces. And looking at the expressions on their parents’ faces, it’s obvious that their child likely hadn’t smiled in months. But in contrast to those smiles there is still sorrow. We’ve lost many children along the way. Jayson has received countless letters from mourning parents, thanking him for bringing just one more smile or one more moment of joy to their child’s final days. There have been several occasions that my eyes have welled up with tears in a coffee shop while working on a Tatum’s project. There have even been times I’ve put off working on a Tatum’s project because I tend to get emotionally overwhelmed by what I see. But I push through it. Jayson Parker and Tatum’s Bags of Fun are doing something really special, and they’re do it very well. I’ve posted a video of Tatum below, explaining more about this special organization. and consider bringing smiles and hope to these children and their families.