You will reap the benefits of your sacrifices in later years, when you go and look in your regret basket and find nothing there.
Those of us with consciences are sometimes cursed by their constraints, but look around at the many who have no such barometer to gauge the differentials between Id and Ego Ying and Yang, Generosity and its Antonym.
A sacrifice, no matter how little or great, is a personal bank from where we gift the gratuityβs and pieties which enable others to survive.
One need look no further than the origins and reasons for the worlds first bank which was Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Sienna, enabling a peasant society to develop with security.
We are all bankers , some people charge interest, others expect it, yet more decline it.
The person who considers, what their shadow is covering and depriving of light, will never find themselves in darkness.