We are the decisions we make, the choices we take, and the voice we choose to listen to from within. Feed the good, feed the bad, you get what you wish for. Yet, there will, and always will be, light at the end of the tunnel (as clichéd it may be).
We should strive to make better decisions, control our impulses (if we know they're usually what land us in trouble), set ourselves goals, and strive to smash them one by one. Above all, we should become such that we don't need others to fill that void within us, that is ours, as individuals, and only ours, to fill alone by oursleves.
A completely different aspect - but nonetheless true