Everyone in your life serves a purpose.  Every ONE serves their role outstandingly, including you, until you finally come to realize it is exactly that:  a role.  Others may remain fixed and fixated on their roles, but you need not.  It takes focus, quite great at first, to break free of the identification of the role and to say to the Higher Self, “Thy will be done,” but oh what magic awaits the one who does so and finally sees that everyone in your life IS One.