![]() I love my family and I love my life, but there is so much I haven’t done yet. I stress about things like making payroll and how many copies my latest book sold. Truth is, I’m on the road for work some two hundred days a year. It shouldn’t take a bad diagnosis to forgive those who have wronged us, travel the world, and open our hearts to loving others. But as Tim McGraw sang, we shouldn’t wait until we’re dying to start living. We put our dreams aside, and then we forget about them altogether. We get so sucked in our daily routines-get up, go to work, come home, make dinner, watch the ballgame-that life passes us by if we aren’t careful. The two were estranged for years, but they formed a relationship when Tim turned eighteen and remained close until the end. His advice to his son is simple: “Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.” What makes the song especially heartbreaking is that Tim recorded it the very same month his father, the legendary Mets and Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw, died of a brain tumor. “I went skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu,” he says. But instead of feeling sorry for himself, his dad was grateful. ![]() The song is about a man who finds out his father is dying. ![]() And the song that changed everything for me was “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw. It wasn’t just trucks and beer-but love, family, and soul. It wasn’t until about twenty years ago that I realized what country music was all about. Whenever country music came on the radio, I’d immediately change the station. Back when I was growing up in New York State, I didn’t listen to much else besides Billy Joel, the Eagles, and Journey.
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