After all, you only have yourself and at the end, only you remain for your own self. So start accepting yourself for what you are right now.

Sacrificing is perfectly fine if there surely is a need. Just remember the sacrifice of that single electron which jumps from the ground state to excited state only to make the entire atom stable. It's truly worth. Isn't it?

PETRICHOR You're that pleasant petrichor For which I wait to inhale on every rainy day.