Today I turn 55 years old. Yikes.

I guess you can say the only good thing about turning 55 is that it automatically qualifies me for early-bird senior specials at local restaurants, air travel (I think) and God knows what else.

I look back on all this time and think how I’ve wasted an awful lot of those years just stumbling through trying to figure out who I am, what I am, and what I’m supposed to be doing with this life, and to what end? Methinks the writer of Ecclesiastes was right when he wrote:

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?

A generation goes and a generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.

Also, the sun rises and the sun sets;
And hastening to its place it rises there again.

Blowing toward the south,
Then turning toward the north,
The wind continues swirling along;
And on its circular courses the wind returns.

All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.

All things are wearisome;
Man is not able to tell it.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor is the ear filled with hearing.

That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 1:2-9

Maybe you shouldn’t occupy yourself too much with these kinds of big questions and just live your life as it comes to you, maybe you’re not meant to learn that kind of thing until you turn, oh, I don’t know – 60? Or even later. Or maybe you never do.

I don’t know what else to say, so I’ll leave y’all with this classic cut from The Eagles, it’s a good one.

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Pool temp: 70 degrees