Great answer, given the proposition I put to you!
Wow.
Yeh, the 'helping others' thing.....I thought I'd 'had my season' for that, as you put it. Years, in my 20s and 30s, of doing just that (street kids, etc). I like to think / imagine that the work put in to these kids, who'd now be in their roughly 40s, may have somehow had an impact. But we'll never know.
I figured you'd say more or less what you did say. I guess it's the hindsight factor that you have now. My hindsight is all too caught up with all that I did 'wrong', back in the day, just in Life, even when booze wasn't a part of it.
Before I go off for my nap (which I tend to need, whatever state I'm in, and at whatever time of day): I simply want to say thanks to all you SR people. Simply that you're Being There - remember that old movie with Peter Sellers? - gives many of us, me, actually, some teensy bit of hope.
Even a teensy bit o' hope can translate to a teensy bit of quality of life.