Every single moment, you are a successor and a failure too. Can you conceive that? Each word that has an opposite, you are both; you are either experiencing it within, without or both at the same time in some way (which is closer to the truth). You must be both because you are All That Is.
As long as we are captive of our social conditioning and limiting perception, we find it difficult to see the whole in the span of linear time.
When you are experiencing the “positive”, there is, at the core of its experience, the mark of the negative and vice versa. When you are consciously aware of that and are not afraid to see the opposite possibility, you ride on the waves of experience, untouched by either pole.
