Yes Dave, that's an excellent point. Self-awareness and an inner stability etc are important if one is to be a good person. Unhappy folk are often curmudgeonly and sour. Like people trying to save a drowning man, the instructions are 'first ensure you are safe before attempting the rescue'.
I've been thinking about this thread a lot, and have been considering the things which stand in the way of Goodness. Jealousy, bitterness, over-competitiveness, smugness, irascibility, reticence, meanness, obsession with appearances and so on. They are obstacles to being a good person I think.
And too much yap yap yapping! hee hee