H,
It is not easy to fail. It weighs on the soul, everything seems to shift to the level of your incompetence and seems to attack the full nature of the thing you thought you were building. Are we not presently in the Maze? Trying to adjust our way to the home we thought we were building over eight years in the midst of things.
Yet, the eternal things remain. We are not here to win anything but our own souls. There is nothing in it. Mount Olympus is not a destination or an achievement, it is just a place. We might never hit the heights of the thing in front of us but never mind, we were made for so much more. Our destiny is not in things but in being. We are not here for the small pebbles of human government and its perks and challenges. We are here for everything that exists and its connection with our eternal hearts.