[voice]
Aren't you assuming your failure based on a what if?
'What if' your life is the one you were shown? Then you failed, and there's nothing you can do about it - right? Is that really any less of a 'what if' than the possibility that it's not true? Or, at least not your reality?
[a pause, not that he actually believes this because he's seen people come and go]
What does it matter anyway, if we're going to be stuck here for the rest of our lives?