You can carry a large mountain of hope around with you that it will happen but without a connection to it, it will remain as a distant dreaming of yours, a passing interlude in time that took your fancy for a while to become but another memory among many.

I had a similar conversation a couple of months back with colleague & yeah.. the mountain was never within our reach as it was all talk & no actual actions. Then it got us thinking if the mountain is even worth it to dream.
Sadly we never came to a conclusion on it.