Love. Live. Risk! Y not?!

Ahhhhh....downtime.  How long has it been since I had & took real, true downtime?  Months?!  Probably.  I believe in living my life.  I believe in grabbing every opportunity to enJoy mySelf & my Life, so I tend to fill every moment as much as I possibly can.  "Do I want to go have fun with you?!  Hell yeah!  Let's go play!".   Life is too short & we never know how long we really have.

My brother is the same way.  We figured out why a few years ago...our mother died when I was 9 & 3/4 and he had just turned 5, five days before she passed.  We decided together that is why we always "fit one more thing" in.  That is why we savor and take advantage of EVERY moment we have.  Period.  We learned very early that we never really know how long we have, so live it, love it, be and experience everything.

I have been reminded of this again this week.  My 14 & 1/2 year old Soul-Mate, love of my life, Blonde Pomeranian mix, Bella, was diagnosed with a tumor on her chest.  It sent me reeling...she is healthy and energetic and lovely and loving and charming and gracious and EVERYBODY who meets Bella loves her.  You can't help it.  We got her bloodwork back and it is really good, especially for an aging dog...this news made me cry.  I have hope.  I can't lose her yet, she sustains me...so we will fight this unwanted invader and I will love her and she will take her amazing, strong, gracious self into this and we will come out the other side.   If you have a Soul-Mate dog, you understand this.  If you don't, it might sound a little melodramatic and you might think, "Really?!  It's a dog.". I'm ok with everyone putting their beliefs on whatever their interpretation is...this is my reality and we have a connection that is unexplainable.  She has saved my life over & over & I've literally saved hers twice.  We are a team...I could never put our connection & effect on each other into words.

I am once again reminded, one simply never knows what's going to happen...why waste even one second!?

I bought a little framed piece, before I got her actually, but I always think of her when I see it since she came into my life..."remind thyself that what thou lovest is mortal, that what thou lovest is not thine own, but is given to thee for the present, not irrevocably nor forever, but even as a fig, or a bunch of grapes, in it's appointed season of the year"

Love.  Live.  Risk...y not?!  What have you got to lose?!  Looking stupid?!  Getting hurt?!  Whatever.  In the end, it is the things we miss, the things we don't embrace, the fear that gets the best of us that we regret.  Live.  Love.  Risk.  You simply never know...