to know the apparent "failure" was not the very thing that was needed, and NONE OF US have seen that. NONE OF US knows precisely what's needed, and when. (This may be a bit of a repeat, but it bears repeating from a different angle) What you call a "success" might quickly turn into a "failure"... given time. 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, all "successes" eventually dissolve and could then be called "failures". Just as any "failure" could quickly become a "success", given that same time. Every apparent "failure" is just a sign saying, "This isn't it. You're needed somewhere else." It's a time/thing/place/person you are not supposed to be with. If you WERE supposed to be with that, you'd be there -- and you'd call it a "success" -- but only because that's the way you THOUGHT it should go, and so it matched your ideas of how things "should be", and so you call it a "success". When really, reality and universal intelligence is always going the way it should, wether it matches your ideas of how it should go, or not. When you see this, you see "success" and "failure" are nothing more than words tied to how you think things should go. As if we know what's absolutely best for us from our limited viewpoint here! How can we know that? We can't. Not absolutely. "Failure" is just a word, a LABEL, you attach to yourself in a moment and then freeze yourself into a