The Difference Between Selfishness And Self-Love

People are often confused between selfishness and self-love. Loving yourself, putting your happiness, your opinion, your point of thought and doing things that make you happy is not being selfish it’s just means that you love yourself before anyone else.

Selfishness is when you are greedy and so full of yourself that you force yourself on others, force your happiness on others and making others do things for your own happiness without doing anything in return for their happiness or taking in account of their feelings.

In today’s world where we are lacking humanity, gratitude and love self-love is the only things that can help you give strength and motivate you to further continue living happily without anyone. If you are dependent about your own happiness on others it will only weaken you, pull you down, make a negative impact and push you towards ending your life or make you do something that will lead you to end your life- like taking drugs or more of alcohol consumption.

If you are alone on a road trip and you take food which is way too much for you, you can always share with someone who is in need of it, but rather you don’t share continue to eat and let it waste later, than you can call yourself selfish. But if you love to dance and you are being stopped from dancing just because others thing it is not good but still you choose to dance because that’s what make you happy than you are just loving yourself.

There is no harm in being self-loving but there is harm in being selfish. You not only being selfish and hurting your own conscious but you are also hurting others. Self-love is loving yourself, giving priority to yourself before others. You are not harming anyone in it.

Self-love helps you to know yourself, understand yourself and when you will know how to love yourself be happy you will love others and give happiness to others around you. Selfishness is just being cold and rude. If someone is helping you to be happy you are happy but if someone asks you to help them for their happiness you refuse them and are rude to them, than that is being selfish.