Dont you just sometime's hate that feeling when you're doing a lot of hard work of something, and then you fail, and everything falls apart. And you did all that work for nothing? Here is an example: Say you are in the last level of a video game, and you may be about to beat the final boss. And then you're about to win, when you get killed or the power goes out and you lose. And all your hard work was for nothing. I just hate that feeling.
*Note*This doesnt just have to do with video games.
Thinking it was all for nothing implies that the end result was the only thing of value. In these cases, its best to try to see that the process of arriving at the conclusion has equal value as the state of achieving [insert goal here].
*Note*This doesnt just have to do with video games.