Indeed! If we imagine human societies as networks of pipelines where water (or creative energies, or the force of life) flows, then if this or that piece of pipe gets stuck, it surely will affect a whole region of the network. So, to unstuck oneself is also to help the whole community, contributing towards the free and healthy flow of energies. Or, that is what I think, but I always tend to think that the boundary between "me" and "the other stuff out there" is just an imaginary one, for deep down we are all connected, we are all one. I don't know but I'd guess it is because of this kind of philosophical views why I personally find it hard to wrap my mind around the idea of a human being thinking of oneself as a separate island of autonomous self-contained projects.