Solid marriages are often built upon the exprience of disastrous ones. Politicians who lose elections become tempered for the contests that follow, sometimes going on to solid, useful careers. Painters, playwrights, novelists, and other artists often learn as much from their failures as they do from those rare moments when vision, craft, and ambition come together to produce masterpieces.
Living was all, and in life, defeat and victory are inseparable brothers.
Our friends, right or wrong.