On the other hand, if life is infinite, and we who experience life are eternal, then success and failure are relative to the moment. In eternity we are free to forever change and improve on our failures, therefore, there really would be no failures or permanent successes, just expanding wisdom. By its very nature a finite view of life is bounded. It's bounded by time and space and the restrictions they impose. Time has a beginning and an end.
Space has a top, a bottom and peripheral boundaries.
If we see life as finite, limits are set upon everything we attempt to do and upon every idea we conceive. Before you totally throw out the idea of infinite life, or rather that you are an eternal being, realize that three quarters of the world's population believes in reincarnation. Now eternal life implies reincarnation or the concept that we are eternal souls reinhabiting different bodies. If you were raised with a religious ethic that didn't include reincarnation, this is a foreign, perhaps uncomfortable, even inconceivable idea. If this upsets your beliefs about life and death then don't read any further, because you're free to experience reality in any way you chose.