Almost Famous

Let me take this opportunity to tell one of my stories about rubbing elbows with famous people without gaining residual glamour or cool.
Eldon Henson went to Emerson College the same year I did and lived down the hall from me. Everyone thought he was cool because he had been one of Disney's Mighty Ducks.
We were not friends but we got drunk a few times and watched old Kung Fu movies.
Eldon was tough, I think. He always told stories about how rough it was growing up in Southern California and how he had always had to fight for survival and how most of his friends were dead or in prison and how getting fucked up helped him to forget. Try as I might, I had no idea how to relate to him.
Now he has big roles in indy flicks like Manic and medium roles in Hollywood trash like The Butterfly Effect and O. Bastard.
I live in rural Wisconsin. Read my story on how the coroner's shower doesn't have any hot water. Then tell me whose life is more fulfilling. Seriously, tell me.