to go through with something

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

a killer hit from the 1993 hit album "Counterparts" by the Canadian progressive/hard rock band Rush. A great inspirational and uplifting (and rocking) tune to listen to when you're the minority on a certain point of view, people around you behave like programmed androids that question nothing and can't think for themselves, and you know that you are right.

to endure