Yes we have to guard against our egos leading us through a lifetime that revolves around it’s mischief and beliefs and false pride. Otherwise we will one day be in our death bed thinking ‘wow, it’s over and I didn’t live the life that my soul craved and I was in a constant state of overwhelm, darn it, too late now’
Keep checking in with your life. Sit down and ask yourself if you are living the life you want. Reinvent yourself - that’ll surprise the people who lean on you to do stuff they don’t want to do. Make the people around you stand proud fir themselves - you don’t have to prop them up - you’ll be doing them a favour.