This is truth. You aren't worth a damn to anyone or anything else until you can stand on your own and handle your business.

Sometimes that means telling everyone else to fuck off while you bail out your boat.

After all, no one else can or will.

In my experience at least, it is a whole lot easier to get pulled down into someone else's misery than it is to pull them up into your happiness.

You owe it to yourself and your family not to let that happen.

Anyone that has a problem with that can promptly go fuck themselves as far as I am concerned.

Reminds me of a line from that scene in Ironman, right before Tony first gets captured, when he's doing the demonstration for the military generals. He says,

That's the way Dad did it, that's the way his Dad did it, and it seems to be working out pretty well so far.

Amen.