"It means he's gonna go for all the tricks."
"The whole kit and kaboodle. " Jackson said.
"Kind of like getting married." Lonnie explained.
"How's that?" Mark asked
"Well, say you find you a woman and you just can't get enough of. You want her so bad you can't eat, can't sleep.
"Now you know this is a woman who's gonna keep your bed warm on cold nights, make you potato soup when you're sick. She'd gonna believe you even when you're lying. Hell, she's the only person in the world who's gonna know what you wanted that you never got, and what you got that you never wanted.
"But you know for certain there's gonna be times when this woman's gonna make you miserable. She's gonna bitch if you forget your anniversary. She's gonna want you to watch some crying movie on TV when there's a ball game you wanna see. She'll expect you to skip your poker game and keep her company when she's feeling blue. In other works, she's gonna be a pain in the ass some of the time.
"So, you gotta make a decision. What are you gonna do? Walk away from her? Or go for it all. Give her up? Or shoot the moon."
"Well...." Mark looked into one face after another while all four of the domino boys waited. They were sizing him up. And he knew that his answer would, for them at least, determine what kind of man he was.
Finally he said, "Well, I guess I'd shoot the moon."
-excerpt from Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
I guess that's what it all comes down to.... relationships require sacrifices. They require you to give of yourself in a way that may make you vulnerable. It may push at your boundaries and this can make you feel uncomfortable. Willingness to make sacrifices, to give of yourself, will determine a lot about who you are. It is risky to put yourself out there. After all you may be rejected. Is the pay off worth the risk? Do you give only to a point? Or do you give it all? Do you shoot the moon?
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