If you give every morsel of your being to achieving something for a decade or so, and you don’t achieve it, have you failed?

If you give every morsel of your being to achieving something for a decade or so, and you don’t achieve it, have you failed?

Stewart Loewe, the St Kilda great, walked past me a few years back at a grand final moments after the final siren sounded, and made a wistful comment.