The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The failure worth fearing is not the unsuccessful attempt but the abandoned intention. Outcomes are shared with luck, other people and timing, whereas holding to what you believed was right is entirely yours, and letting go of it is the only loss genuinely of your own making. That is a narrower definition than most people carry around.

Which means checking your grip rather than your results. Ask what you decided mattered a year ago and whether you are still acting on it, or whether it slid away with no moment of deciding. Reattaching to a purpose is usually a matter of one concrete commitment rather than renewed conviction.