I know it’s cliche to say you’re getting old, but seriously folks…is bowling supposed to be this painful? Last night my new bowling league started and today it feels like I played in a hockey game with 5 OTs (speaking of which….did anyone see the ‘Cuse/UConn game last night?). I kind of like the pain, though. I feel like an athlete again!…just like when I was a kid and played a football game and I was sore the next day. The BIG difference is that I’ll probably be sore all week from the bowling whereas when I was a kid I would have been fine that afternoon.
It makes me think about what could have been. When I was a kid, I played pretty much every sport under the sun (except hockey, which for some reason wasn’t really around in Kansas City). Sports, in general, were a big part of my life and still are. I was pretty good at most everything I played, but I was really good at bowling. My best friend, Mike, and I played a few years in a competitive bowling league and we were good…good to the point where we were consistently winning and competing against the best players around. Had I stuck with bowling, who knows, maybe I’d be a professional bowler right now. The chances of becoming a professional football or baseball player are so small I probably never would have made it anyway. But bowling, I think I could have gone somewhere. Maybe there’s a senior circuit I can start preparing for.
I guess it’s too late to go back and become a professional bowler. I’ll have to settle on being the best 9pm Thursday night bowler at the Presidio Bowling Lanes. You have to start somewhere.
Shallow Thoughts by the Daily Bones 