[HiTech RedNeck]

The problem is the dimensions into which the persistence is pushed. That’s in the poem too. A strange, weird, ethics-free territory, to get that Eldorado (golden stuff). On a par with the load of compromisin’ to the way to the rhinestone cowboy’s horizon.

[Jemian]

One of my favorite movies is The Wind and the Lion. At the end, the protagonist's second-in-command remarks that everything is gone, floating away on the wind, that they have lost everything,. The hero answers with a question, "Do you not have anything in your life which is worth everything else?"

I think I, too, have something which is worth the sacrifice of everything else, and I have dedicated my life to it.