We all get self-centered.
I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.
Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.
Go do the right thing.