It’s okay to outgrow a dream. Shoes that fit at twelve aren’t supposed to fit at twenty.

An ambition you have carried for years can quietly stop being yours, and letting it go often gets confused with failing at it. You are allowed to want something different than you wanted at fourteen, because you are not that person now. What you want changed while you did.

Ask whether you still want the thing, or whether you mostly do not want to be the person who quit. If it is the second, that is worth separating out. Setting it down deliberately, and saying so, is different from drifting away and calling it failure.