A Reflection on the Little Things (Why we're moving to Boston) You're going to see your parents 15 more times before they die. In 2021, that simple statement, which later became the opening line of my book, changed my life. My wife and I were living in California at the time, 3,000 miles away from our parents. I had been there for 12 years––a college baseball scholarship had brought me out West, and then a lucrative job opportunity had kept me there. In a lot of ways, that felt fine. Growing up, if you're fortunate enough to have healthy parents, your default assumption is that they're immortal. Obviously, you know they're not, but the idea of mortality becomes a conceptual or intellectual one, not a visceral reality you've really contemplated. As you get older, you realize: The answers you seek in life are found in the questions you avoid. When I was confronted with that simple math––of the number of moments I had remaining with my parents––it forced me to confront one of those questions I had been avoiding. What were my real priorities? And were my actions aligned with those priorities? You see, there are two types of priorities in life: 1. The priorities we say we have; and 2. The priorities our actions show we have. And often there's a big gap between the two. I know. I was living it. Your life improves alongside your ability to close that gap. But you can't close it until you acknowledge that it exists in the first place. I saw the gap and knew that if something didn't change, we were going to end up with a life we never wanted....