Isn't it important to take good care of yourself?

hello oldsix! i agree with you, it is truly important to take good care of our self, not only because we value ourselves but because we owe it to our family, our parents, our friends and the society we live in and best of all to the almighty Father who gave us our life. That is why when time comes where we feel depressed and would like to end our life, we should not disregard the presence of this people in our lives and start saying, nobody loves or cares for us, you are a failure and all that gibberish. If we want people to love us, then we should make ourselves lovable, we owe it to them. If we are always failing, then maybe we are not trying our best, we owe it to these people to strive harder. Let's start being selfish by being unselfish. It's not always about us, we are not the only one suffering or failing. We should take care of our self, because if we don't, then who else would?

I believe, we don't belong to anybody. Yes, we came from our parents but it does not mean that we belong to them, or to any one around us. For me, taking care of yourself is one of the important things before taking care of other people. People might say that you're being selfish for taking care and loving yourself but the truth is, it is always ourself that is our fall back when we have some problems and dillemas. Neither your husband nor your wormates are your mind and heart. So, aja! Start caring yourself! ;)

I believe it is always important to take the best care of ourselves that we can. If we don't do this, how can we expect to take care of our responsibilities and our loved ones? Life is something we should enjoy. We can't hope to do that if we aren't taking care of ourselves.

Yes, form all u mentioned above, it makes me believe more in living for ourself. We should not live for others anymore, by doing the same things majority of people are doing. We should go all out to fulfil our dreams, our goals in life. It does not matter to disappoint some people because we have disappointed ourself for far too long. It's time to stand up for our rights in life, our right to live the way we want.

You are absolutely right. So from last year, i developed a new habit for living life that is living for myself, without caring of anything else. I just want what i want to do, I only care for the kids who are attached to me otherwise i won't care for anyone. I only care what my heart says although i have lot of friends to all of whom i respect a lot but now I respect myself a lot.

I agree but also disagree. I agree that we owe it to other people to take care of ourselves but to a certain extent. I do not believe that I "belong" to anyone but my family. But yah i agree we should all take care ofourselves, for YOU and for other people.

It is important to remember to take care of ourselves. We work so hard taking care of our kids, spouses, parents, sisters, brothers, friends, co-workers. We're so considered with other people's happiness and well being. That's not a bad thing but in doing so, we forget about ourselves--our happiness and our well being. We are just as important as the people around us and we need to make sure we are taken care of just as well as we take care of our loved ones.

The most important thing in one's life is to take care of oneself. It is also the most sacred virtue and a principle that's well above all the religion. However what's good and important for us actually depends on our philosophy of life. For example, someone who is an avid reader will think that to stay happy one needs to read lots of books. A bookseller on the other hand will think that books are good as long as he can sell it at good price. A book, however has no value to a thief as it isn't worth its weight. So the same thing is interpreted by persons belonging to different background and profession. The same principle can be applied to life. We, human beings are all inherently selfish. However some people are selfish in a very selfish way. They lack foresight. They can only see the immediate future. Due to this myopia they hardly make any huge profit in anything. You love to gamble, so you visit casino every night and spend $100 bucks there. There will soon be a time when you will not have enough money to pay the cab fare to the casino. So we see that taking care of yourself is not enough. When it is accompanied by wisdom, then it makes a great virtue. Otherwise it's just an instinct.

It is important that we take good care of ourselves to be able to take care of others too.Love thyself before others.In life, sometimes the very least that we do is take care of ourselves, we forget that we have our own selves to protect and love for others to appreciate and admire.