Balance may be difficult to strike, it is true. Not everyone will have the same aptitude, nor may everyone be driven to pursue such abilities to the same ends— but I think I prefer optimism.

[Perhaps it is naive, but if he cannot hope for the very best in a dream world, where can he? He smiles at her in turn, his own faint but hopeful.]

It is only natural, that we look at this world through the lens of what we know from our own— but you put it quite succinctly. Everyone can be a dreamer. Our opportunities here are equal.