What counts at the end basically has to do with what is good. Success, joy, Happiness, etc are all good things and are those things that mankind expects at the end of a situation or life. Good things always count at the end unlike war, death, sadness, sorrow etc are not to happen at the end.
RE: When You Stretch out, What Do You Find? - April 5|Day #5 - Diary of The Struggling Writer from Ife