Irony

This a quote from "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing in a book called "Great Lives Great Deeds."
I was impressed by how true the principle is between the imagined - the dream - and the reality.

Its about Ernest Shackleton, an Irish explorer of the Antarctic. He thoroughly believed the motto of his family "By endurance we conquer." He was always at his best when everything seemed hopeless.

"Ironically, here was the moment they had dreamed of ever since the days of Ocean Camp, but, as so often happens, the reality was vastly different from the dream."

As in Shackleton's journey, so in marriage...