Need to remind myself of this

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-- Steve Jobs

Internal Changes

I embarked on this journey to leave everything I knew behind. I had lost some of myself in academia and in a relationship and I chose to follow the voice inside that coaxes me onto planes towards unknown lands. I can hardly believe I'm halfway through, there were times where it felt like this was not even a trip or a journey but just an on going state and way of life. Now that the end is in sight however, I am starting to feel further pressure on me to fill that big pile of empty space and potential ahead of me.
Another thing I have noticed is that people whom I meet up with along the way, people I hold dear to me in a home life context, are showing me different colors while in the midst of traveling. Perhaps it is my colors that are changing, perhaps I am a know-it-all when it comes to traveling, or judgmental, or just too independent to bother with buddies on the road. Or maybe its seeing these people in a different environment, one which is filled with challenges and unknowns, and perhaps its their safety net behaviors which are irking me. Maybe I have low patience and high expectations for those around me, forgetting all of the subtle knowledge I have acquired through travel experiences.