I respect your insight and deep dives into making yourself a better person. Someone who works to make themselves a better individual is doing the best for themselves and for those around them. Given that "perfection" does not truly exist, embarking on the conscious journey of self-improvement is as perfect as we can expect a person to be.

We all need role models of some kind to guide us through life, and they don't necessarily have to be individuals - they can even be ideas. That is something you've discovered on your own.

Wishing you the best of luck in continuing to discover whatever helps you become the person you intend to become (when writing this, I write to myself as much as I write to you lol)!