Many people around us do care about others, the way they think and trying their best to keep them happy somehow. But in the process of making others happy, they forget about themselves and from here we start losing our self. A self that comes first, a self that you need the first because if this self is ignored it can crash you all but little we know about self love and self improvement.
Living in today's world where we are surrounded by envious and jealous people who would crash you with their words just to sound cool or bring you down to make themselves superiors or we can say to gain attention they can go up to any limit. Keeping all this in view we should definitely love ourself, work on our self build up our personality. Loving your self makes you feel confident and it keeps you away from all the mental disorders. It makes you who you are, bringing out the natural form of you.
For many people self improvement or self love is a name of a luxury which can be ignored but little they know that it's a necessity upon which we are built up. A lot of people mix self love with self obsession which are two different poles. Self love is loving your self in a manner that makes you beautiful and that gives you your own identity and your personality while self obsession destroys you because when you are obsessed with your self all you know is you and your possessions which makes you envious and a jealous person who can digest anything with others. They think the world revolves around them and wants to be the top of the show everywhere they go. While self love is about caring about yourself as well as others around you. While sharing your point of view in a way that doesn't lead to fight. It makes you learn agree to disagree.
Some times we are very hard on ourselves. Because we are told to do everything in a perfect manner, which is totally wrong we all are born to make mistakes. To err is human if we are born perfectist how would we be able to learn. We all tend to learn from our mistakes. So we should love ourselves sometimes even for committing a few mistakes because that's how we learn and experience new things.
Love your self as it's a tool to successful life.