In the book The Old Man and the Sea, the old man only dragged back a white bone in the end, which was obviously a failure.So do you think the old man won? Why?
It does not matter whether one ends up with a whole marlin or an empty
skeleton, for the value of one's life is fully realized in the pursuit
of the marlin, when one admits this defect and strives to overcome it
rather than yield to it.