How do you love yourself?

What constitutes loving oneself? Some say it's loving your body, respecting own's soul. Does that mean that people who drink, smoke or do drugs don't love themselves? Probably not. Does that mean that prostitutes don't love themselves? Probably not.

How then would we know what it means to love yourself?

Is there a criteria? A checklist,  something that we can place a tick upon once we fulfill it?

I don't know. But what I do know is that there are people out there who don't love their bodies, but really love themselves. And on the other side of the fence, people like me who cherish the mortal flesh of my body, but don't really seem to be loving myself.

How then do we do it? How would we know if we've done it?

And if we can't even tell if we love ourselves, how then can we love another?

Why are we so sure we love another when really, we don't even know if we love ourselves?

Or is it just human nature to look at the world before us, through the eyes at the front of our heads, without looking down at itself, the body that houses the eyes, the head?