As opposed to the delusions that a person is a success? I understand that the perception of failure and success is all highly personal. I've met complete wastes of skin that thought they were king of the world.

Being a 'failure' is completely in my own perception of myself. I understand that. However, I like the way I think. I have no desire to reset my train tracks and go a different route with my way of thinking. That would mean basically saying to myself, "Everything that you are is wrong... be someone else if you want to be happy."

If that's the case.. then why bother? I want to be happy as the person that I am now. I want to achieve something AS I AM. I don't want to go about rearranging myself again, I've done that all too many times over the years and I'm through with it. This is me, and I'm sticking to it. I can't bring myself to believe that the only recourse would be to redefine myself. I'm too jaded for that anyways. If that's my only option, then I'm done.