Oh, I know - no offence taken or anything. And you're right to be honest; it's easy to paint a binary picture of success or failure but in reality life's not like that. Me and the missus, as happy as we are together (to the best of my knowledge, anyway), are not without our issues, just like any relationship really.
My general point is that you don't always get to pick your own cards in life, and that's probably more true than ever right now - particularly for the younger generation (man, I feel old just typing that, and I'm 'only' 35). Accept that you're not in control of everything, control the bits you can control, and make the most the of the odd unexpected opportunity that fate has to throw in your direction along the way.
Agreed. In life you look back and realise that things that you thought *so* important at the time are actually not. Equally, things that
you took for granted and didn't think were that important at the time *are* the things of huge importance.