I can't make self-assessments like these. It's always different to me than it is to anyone else.

A little of both. I'm different in different situations, and I think most people are.

Both. I would give anything I own to help someone I care about, but am a hoarder when it comes to my time.

Selfish but not the commonly held definition. I am rationally self-interested to no one else's expense.

I can be either depending on the situation. But rather than be one or the other I think a grounded interest in helping others while helping yourself is not a bad idea. You can't give if you are empty from not receiving

I’ve come to believe you have to have a healthy balance of both. It can’t be all about me or all about other people. I was definitely selfish like most young people through college. I have given endlessly ever since as a nurse, mother, in the community. It’s just recently I’m starting to enjoy more things that I like to do.

I get a lot of joy helping people. That's why I volunteer at a homeless shelter most of the week.

I'm not enlightened enough to think of myself or anyone else as anything but 100% selfish.

That doesn't mean that I'm a bad person. I have empathy and care strongly about the happiness and wellbeing of others, even if I have to sacrifice something of myself for them. But that doesn't mean I don't do it for selfish reasons.

When you get right down to it, I think that everything we do is for ourselves and ourselves alone, even if most might classify it as selfless.

If I pay for a stranger's groceries because they can't, I'm doing it because it feels like it's the right thing to do, which makes me feel good. Selfish.

If I donate to a charity, even if no one in the world knows I did it, I did it for myself because maybe it makes me feel like a better person. Selfish

If I risk my own life to save someone from a burning building, even if I'll most likely die doing it, maybe it's because I couldn't live with myself knowing that I might have been able to save them if I'd only tried. Selfish.

I just can't think of a situation of "selflessness" that actually isn't selfish from an internal perspective, even if we don't immediately realize it.

Or maybe I think too much about this kind of stuff

I am neither selfish nor selfless/altruistic - I am fairist. I want my fair share of what's on offer, and I want everyone else to get their fair share too.

I'm somewhere in the middle. I am selfish enough to treat myself or survive in certain situations, but I am also generous enough to other people and even more so to those close to me. But even when we do something good for others it's not totally altruistic. There is a bit of selfishness in everything we do.

This a very simplistic question to a very complex issue. As others have commented; this is not a simple matter of this, or that. I am rationally self-interested. That means I make important life decisions based on what's best for me. Rational self-interest is specifically described in the Objectivist Philosophy identified by Ayn Rand.

I believe the natural Human state is that of rational self-interest. We all have a survival instinct, like any animal.

I do not consider altruism, in and of itself, to be virtuous. With that said, I have helped several people I know who really needed it, and were trying hard to help themselves. So I am selective about who I help and who I am willing to make sacrifices for. It's tied to value.

I am selfish and so are all living creatures. It is a natural thing to be so to survive. Though there are elements in my selfish nature that also include that I provide assistance to the homeless and hungry. While seemingly a "selfless" act, one can argue that my need to do so, is indeed selfish. One may think of themselves as completely selfless, but the mere fact that one continues to be alive, is a contradiction to that self assessment.

I'm selfish. Everything I do is centered around making myself happy. If others get what they want is always secondary.

I have a predominantly selfish disposition but I am aware of this and try to keep it at a healthy level. I do try to help others as often as I can, but I only have a couple of people in my life that I would for selfless for.

Selfish.
Our only purpose in this life is to be happy, so if helping others makes someone happy, then do that, and if photographing birds in swamps makes someone happy, also do that.
No rigid rules and "shouldn't" shaming.

I don't see that it makes any difference.

No

I think for the most part I'm selfless, partly through what I do for a living, partly because that's how I was brought up but probably I just worked out that that is the way to (try and) be.

But..................and I'm not sure if this is selfish or just sensible I have me time every week. The world can go f--- itself when I'm on me time

Probably a mixture of both. You need a balance.

I am Selfish... because I am in charge of Me! I am not a liar faking around I am not and telling Everyone I am not selfish. I am Selfish. Just like jesus who said... "In the cross sandwich I want to be in the middle".

I think for the most part I'm selfless, partly through what I do for a living, partly because that's how I was brought up but probably I just worked out that that is the way to (try and) be.

But..................and I'm not sure if this is selfish or just sensible I have me time every week. The world can go f--- itself when I'm on me time

I think that when you become intelligent enough to understand that social inter- connectedness is actually more beneficial to yourself as an individual than being completely self centered , that you begin to grow philosophically towards a healthy balance of the two , but , if we never become intelligent , then we don't do that .