It's not possible right now.
That's why you want it. Because it's not here right now, and waiting for it to happen is never going to work because it simply isn't possible.
You're job then is to make it possible,.
That's what makes it the integral part of like, any great story or life. Because you're fighting the odds to get what you want, which is pretty admirable.
I mean, Harry Potter and Rose Hathaway and even Bella Cullen have one thing in common: The things they want aren't easy to get. Voldemort is impossible to defeat, it's impossible to have a baby vampire, it's impossible to reverse the love of your life back to humanity after becoming (without their will) evil.
It's kind of crazy.
I guess that's why the Spectacular now is going to be such a good movie, but a not-so-great novel (which already exists).
The main character is too scared to dream, so he's obsessed with living in "the spectacular now". It doesn't get better in the end of the novel, but it's still a hell of a novel and I highly recommend it, but the point is that when I heard that the movie's screenplay writers were going to change the ending, I completely agreed.
It's not about loyalty to the story, but about what the reader is gonna get out of it.
If you're going to write a great story (like the Spec Now mostly is), you owe it to your reader that they can take something out of it so that they can move on in their life more confident.
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