Can a fantasy survive daylight?
From The Question Room, a Club column. About this column ↗
At midnight, an idea sounds thrilling. At breakfast, it sounds complicated.
Now there are trains to catch, actual people involved and the possibility that someone won't feel the way they expected.
Does that make the fantasy a bad one? Of course not.
Some ideas belong in conversations, photographs and imagination. They don't need tickets booked.
Would you still enjoy talking about a fantasy if you knew neither of you would ever act on it?