I know, I know. You love yourself: you love the way you look, wouldn't change anything about your physical appearance. Awesome.

But do you really love yourself? Do you always put yourself first? Do you watch out for your own feelings?

Self-love is a tricky topic that i've covered before. Every girl says the same thing: they love themselves. Physically. Which is a good thing, you should physically be happy with yourself. You should love the way that you look and be confident in yourself every time you step outside. The real question is: do you love yourself? Not your physical appearance, but yourself. The person that you are at this very moment. Are you happy?

The reason that I ask this is simple. Loving yourself doesn't always mean your physical appearance, but also how we treat ourselves as individuals. Are you happy alone? Are you an independent individual? All of these things are important when learning self-love. You have to find it in you to love yourself when no one else can. You have to find it in yourself to do what is best in your interest, and, a lot of the time, it's not always what we want exactly. In order to love yourself you have to make those kinds of decisions. You may not always love it, but you have to remember why you ever felt that way to begin with.

Ladies, I'm talking to you here. Lana Del Rey said it best, "This is what makes us girls, we don't stick together cause we put our love first. Something that we'd die for, it's our curse".

Loving yourself means that you love the pieces of you that no one else wanted to/was able to. It means that you make yourself happy, meaning that you're independent. Loving yourself is making the right decisions for none other than you.

I write this to you, my dear reader, because I can't stress enough how important it is to love yourself in order to be happy in life, in relationships, etc. I also write this to let everyone know that self-love isn't just loving your facial features, or the shape of your body, or the parts of you that you hate and/or find awkward. It has nothing to do with how many likes you have on your Instagram pictures, or how many followers you have on Twitter. Self-love is something that only comes from within, something that takes a long time to achieve. Self-love is taking care of yourself- not worrying about hurting other people so much and worry about ways to prevent us from hurting ourselves in the long run.

"Let it hurt, let it bleed, let it heal, and let it go". - Coming from someone who has a Master's in holding grudges. It's time to let go, and it's time to learn to love yourself first. Really love yourself, your features, your characteristics, all the things that you realize make you who you are.