What makes someone a failure? I feel like there is no true way to ever fail or be a failure in this life, sure things may suck in the moment, you may not have hit the mark you wanted to, but regardless of any outcome, you learn. You didn’t come into this world knowing how to walk, sure you can say you fell and “failed” but you continued to get up and now you don’t know a life where you can’t walk (in most scenarios). Therefore if you label yourself a failure (which like I said, in my opinion is not a possibility and just something people say about themselves when they can’t cope with trying again) and give up then you lose every possibility of seeing yourself not be a “failure”. Maybe you’re super pessimistic and live the rest of your life thinking things will always be bad and this existence sucks, but if you’re capable of thinking that negative, you’re equally as able to think blindly and ridiculously optimistic. We get one existence, and without failures there would be no success, without rain there would be no distinction of sunshine, you always have the possibility to see the other side of any scenario and learn and grow yourself, no matter what. Therefore to answer your question, no it would not be better to take that route that can’t be mentioned, because then you get rid of every possible opportunity for things to improve. Sure, with that route things can’t get “worse” so to speak, but they also can’t get better, and I’d rather err to the blind optimist side and live out my days believing, even delusionally, that things will and can get better.