If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

It's not about what you accomplish - it's about what you take away from your experiences and how you handle them.

As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences.

(Answers to life) - You don't have to have it all figured out by a certain age or time in your life. It will come in bits and pieces along the way.