Hmmm I was wondering where your guilty pleasures post was ;P That is definitely not something good...you should set aside some time for yourself. If you're not okay or unhappy about something, well, it affects your relationship with others, so in a way, taking care of yourself is taking care of others also.

I have managed to fail often enough but not catastrophically, and achieve often enough but not astronomically.

That is a good truth, I feel. Sometimes up, sometimes down, but always here, always alive. :)