[Anacardo]

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What, if anything, does success and failure mean to you? How do you deem something as a success or as a failure?

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[censored], that's a good-ass question. I've asked myself this question many times and have yet to hit upon a fully satisfying set of definitions. So much is unknowable - "...I saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all." 'Trying your best' is an incredibly lame definition of success, but the truth is even that might not be vague enough, since the capacity for 'trying your best' varies between people and isn't entirely under our control, either. This is one of those fundamental mysteries, I think. In the end, to judge is the Lord's, but I retain the rather presumptuous right to judge myself.