Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.