It's all too easy to focus on everyone else and forget to tend to your own needs. Think how different the world would be if everyone took time to love and take care of themselves properly. You are right in that we are stuck with ourselves whether we like it or not, it would behoove us to make the most of it.

To truly love and accept yourself including the good and the bad. I look at the the negative aspects of ourselves as parts that we are are supposed to be working on. So if we reject those sides of ourselves and never confront the dark, we can never turn that darkness into light. Like you said, it's your battle and you have to be the one to do the work.