SOMETIMES you're not EVENSURE which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I THOUGHT were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have GONE on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
Monetary success is not success. CAREER success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing SOMETHING that makes you feel complete and FULL. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone ELSE.
The Italian WORD 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good WAY to conceive of a stanza. A room, GENERALLYSPEAKING, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being COMPLETE or independent.
When I was 4 or 5 and I could PUT complete THOUGHTSTOGETHER and really FEEL them, I remember watching the Grammy's or something like that and getting real emotional because I wanted to be up there.
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I NEVER attempted to ACCESS anything considered to be classified government SYSTEMS.