As measured by an outside radar detector, the speed of a moving passenger train is 60 mp/h. You are a passenger on this train walking the same direction the train is moving. A radar detector inside the train records your speed as 3 mp/h. When focused on you, the outside detector records your speed as 63/ mp/h. The question is what is your actual speed 3, 60, or 63?
The answer of course is, relative to the measuring point. If we measure from inside the train your speed is 3 mp/h. Measured from outside the train your speed is 63 mp/h.
If we measure your speed from the planet Kolob as you wiz past in space, your speed may be 6000 mp/h. It is all relative to your point of reference.
If your definition of success is a big house, expensive car, and money in an unlimited supply and you don’t achieve that, then you can measure yourself as a failure. However, if your goal is to get home to God who created you, and you lost all your material possessions in getting there, are you still worthy of being labeled as successful?
It is all relative to the measuring point.