The Diamond Sutra says, "Afflictions are precisely Bodhi."
The sufferings of life are also the catalysts for spiritual practice. Hardship and success are not entirely opposed to each other; within afflictions, the opportunity for awakening is often concealed. If one can examine, contemplate, and treat them with the right attitude, gaining wisdom and realization through insight and reflection upon one's afflictions, then afflictions transform into an opportunity leading to Bodhi. When we no longer treat "seeing through it" as a get-out-of-jail-free card, and no longer treat "inability to do" as a protective amulet, the turning point is often hidden in the most clumsy attempts.
True perfection means accepting our current "inability to do," allowing ourselves to be like a child learning to walk, who falls down, laughs out loud three times at the sky, and then gets back up to try again. Perhaps at this very moment, you are tormented by a certain "seeing through it yet unable to endure it" instant, but please remember this maxim from the Avatamsaka Scripture: "At the very inception of the initial resolve, true enlightenment is attained; knowing the true nature of all dharmas, one is endowed with a body of wisdom not attained through another's awakening."
Chapter 118