Happy 50th - With Many Thanks and Stolen Lines from The Big Lebowski

Age is a tough concept
And the more you age
The more you say it doesn’t matter
Which means there are a lot of people
Who are saying too much
Especially since it doesn’t matter
At least according to them

I don’t know where I fit in to this
But it maters less to me on the days
Me and the boys –
Mack, Walter, Donnie, Jack, Southside and the Dude -
Hit the bowling alley
Bowl a few frames, grab a few beers
(I don’t really drink,
so I grab a Sasparella)
and we talk about the things that go on around us

We talk about how funny life is sometimes
How people get all caught up in the search for something big
When what they are looking for is usually right near by.
And we talk about how some things seem big at the time
(like that time Woo peed on the Dude’s carpet
That carpet, after all, tied the room together so well –
Did it not!)
And sometimes we just talk about bowling –
The gutters, the strikes, the what-have-yous –
Or we talk about Maude.

And these visits are refreshing
Because we always part ways feeling the same thing:
It doesn’t matter how old you are
It only matters how you are feeling as you get through the day

And, of course, it only matters who you are inside
That’s the one constant throughout life
And isn’t that the true measure of a man?
(well, that and a set of testicles...)