How Far?

Sometimes I sit and wonder exactly how far can or should one go to achieve ones desires. I mean we all have goals, and all goals take some application and effort. Hence the '99% perspiration and 1% inspiration' principle. But how fo you judeg the lengths you should go to make things happen?

At work, is it right to take a lot of crap in order to get ahead. Or get head in some cases. lol! Not that I know about that. How much longer at work is it right to stay on after closing hours? Work represents a vehicle for almost all our adult aspirations. But how much do we or should we value it? Should we be prepared to work all out in our youth and reap the rewards later in life?

In our love lives how far should we go to pursue the "love of our lives"? Should we be prepared to love to the detriment of all? Should we prepared to shed blood to hold on to what we think is ours. How much more should we have to spend? Is that extra minute we squeeze in on the phone real value for the love returns we get? How about the times we travel to the far reaches of the earth just to spend moments with the one we love, or the ones we want? Or the risks we take to have that romantic time out? Can we truly justify or quantify them?

In love we seek to capture our dreams in the hug of an embrace. So a perspective might be that no sacrifice is too great. After all a successful relationship is the platform from which our forefathers believed all else took off from. So we should put our all into the pursuit and capture of the perfect mate. Or should we?

A lot of people consider sex the ultimate physical fulfillment. Or maybe thats just guys. I'll certainly be happy to listen to different takes on that. It is known that some men equate their virilty with their worth as human beings. So how far should we take sex? Both as a source of fulfillment and as a statement of our manhood. Is it right to engage in practices which can be tragic and/or fatal? Is there a justification for the recreational use of drugs like viagra and cialis? Or are these practices just the measure of how much value we place on the things that mean the most to us?