Are some things really as difficult as we imagine them to be, or are they "just a thought" and nothing more?

When I told my son that we would publish our fairy tale, he enthusiastically said that we should write that the child "was watching the clouds and dreaming of becoming a pirate, a knight, a dinosaur."

So my son, with his own imagination, put into the clouds what he wanted to see (and probably in reality too)... and I, with my own imagination, perhaps "helped" the child in the story to begin facing situations that challenge him.