I've always had an involved imagination.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
Happiness is the most important thing.
It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.
Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.