Don't make a self. There's nothing more to say. We are born so that we will not have to be born again. You say that you are too busy to meditate. Meditation is your breath.
Breathing is something vital to peoples lives.
If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important. First you understand the Dhamma with your thoughts. If you begin to understand it, you will practice it. And if you practice it, you will begin to see it. And when you see it, you are the Dhamma, and you have the joy of the Buddha.