Facing Reality

Have you ever dreamed about something for a really long time, and then, suddenly, you face the reality of your dream?  You are on the brink of your greatest nightmare or a Disney-esque fairy tale and you don't know if you want to find out which it is.  In the end you jump because you want to discover if your dream will really be as sweet as you hope, and you realize that to keep dreaming without fulfilling your dream would be to waste your time.  It would be better to have your heart broken because it wasn't all you wanted it to be than to keep standing on the edge waiting.  And maybe your dream will end up being all you hoped it would be.

Or, to quote Tangled:

Flynn Rider: [noticing the look on Rapunzel's face] You OK?

Rapunzel: [meekly whispers] I'm terrified.

Flynn Rider: [softly] Why?

Rapunzel: I've been looking out a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what it might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it's not everything that I dreamed it would be?

Flynn Rider: [reassuringly] It will be.

Rapunzel: And what if it is? What do I do then?

Flynn Rider: Well that's the good part, I guess. You get to go find a new dream.

^Ugh, sap.