Person1: “That’s a lot to expect from yourself though”
I’m very curious about this sentence. Do you really think that is something so hard? I’m asking seriously, because I want to understand what you mean by that.
Do you mean that it’s hard not to think about yourself? If that’s what you mean, that’s not what the Rambam means (according to the one my Rav explained it to me).
The only purpose in life is to serve Hashem. That doesn’t mean that we can’t or shouldn’t think about ourselves. We have to do things for ourselves in order to be able to serve Hashem. But if we know that our only purpose in life is to serve Hashem, then everything we do is part of that.