We're all both the town drunk and the bank president - it just depends on who's in charge. I run a successful web firm, and am outwardly a happy-go-lucky manic

We're all both the town drunk and the bank president - it just depends on who's in charge. I run a successful web firm, and am outwardly a happy-go-lucky manic-type person - out of public view, I drink and brood. Conversely, my younger brother, who lives with me, is a melodramatic, miserable guy outwardly, but has this inner happiness and contentedness that I've never understood, and have always both envied and feared. We balance. We both had equally fucked up childhoods in different ways - I had a father who would beat me and lock me outside in the snow, naked, on Christmas - he had no father of which to speak. I had a cowed, frightened animal of a mother, who'd claw and shriek, he had a mother so fucked up on christ knows what that she just didn't care. Anyway - went on more of a tangent there than I intended - my point is that more people than you can ever possibly know are "damaged" in one way or another, but their incompleteness can be at least balanced by other people - what seems like meagre support can change someone's life.