I think you're patting yourself on the back too much.

I was reading about a woman in Cambodia who escaped from torture and near death with her two children and survived in the jungle for 3 years. They never stayed in the same place two days in a row and ate nothing but roots and bugs.

Despite this mother's best efforts, her youngest child starved to death and died in her arms.

A few years later, she founded a safehouse for depressed women who had been raped and tortured like her.

Now SHE is an awesome person and I respect her a lot more.