Someone else's success is not your failure except when it is. Like if you're an actor and another actor gets the part you auditioned for, well then, then it is. But hey, it's okay, I still love you actor, so don't hate me when I say, if at first you don't succeed, if life don't give you what you need, just try, and try again. If you give it your best shot and the assholes say it's not, just try, and try again. Just try, and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, till the day that you die. The cream always rises to the top, except when it won't. Like if you slave away for years at writing and you find yourself in the same place now as you were when you started, and it don't. But yo, you gotta know, that even though it's so cliche, you must go on with the show, and if at first you don't succeed and your fingers start to bleed, just try, and try again. If you bare your very soul and the critics eyeballs roll, just try, and try again. Just try, and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, till the day that you die. If you're standing on a rooftop and you jump off of the building cause you want it all to end, and you land six feet below on a fire escape you didn't know was there at all, now listen friend, ignore my oft-repeated line, just dust yourself off, honey, and respect, that was a sign, cause if your suicide goes bust, then you absolutely must not try. Don't try again, just use the stairs, walk to the street, see the people, feel the heat, and apply yourself again. If at first you don't succeed, if life don't give you what you need, just try, and try again. If you throw in your whole heart and they go recast the part, just try, and try again. If those big shots condescend, *** those bastards, find a friend, and try, and try, and try, and try again. And when they cast you out to sea, there's a lifeboat manned by me called try, and try again. Just try, and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, till the day that we die. And I'll try hard as I can to thrive, if you help me survive, as long as we're alive.