My parents used to tell me, pretty often too—"Don't live in a fantasy world. Don't be so obsessed and consumed with what you love that it consumes you, and you can't see what's right in front of you."
The greatest irony, of all our lives, is that now, what's right in front of us is that fantasy, but not in anyway I, or anyone else, could have possibly imagined.
Cliché right?