It's tempting to think so when you read stories like this: Ray and Liz were childhood sweethearts separated by the Tasman, and later, other marriages and families. But a chance bus ride brought them back together, decades on. Get your tissues ready for this astonishing love story.

And then — daydreaming. We're told it can make us more creative, and help us take a break from the pressures of modern life. But does day-dreaming have a dark side? Check out Hannah Byford's story to learn more.

While we're on the subject of the mind, listen to Dasha Ross as she tells us about the day she lost her memory. What causes this mysterious and fleeting phenomenon?

Finally, if you're dipping your toe back into office life — perhaps combining it with some remote work too — This Working Life is here to help make the new "hybrid office" work for you.

Until next time,

Annika Blau, digital editor
 

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Childhood sweethearts Ray and Liz went their separate ways as teens after sending about 100 letters to each other across the Tasman. Decades later, a chance bus ride brought them back together.

Hannah Byford escaped pain, anger and abuse by daydreaming up elaborate worlds where people loved her. But as she grew up, this proved to be damaging.

At the height of the French Revolution in the late 1700s, a boy sat on the steps of the Notre-Dame cathedral playing a lilting tune on his wooden recorder. Now his skeleton is kept in a storage room in Melbourne.