Live, Love and...Leave

I've experienced and had to learn a lot in the last four months and the biggest, but most cliche tidbit of wisdom I have clung to through it all...is LIVE and LOVE and I now say...LEAVE.
LIVE your life to the fullest, enjoy NOT just the big things we can't miss, NOT just the little things we've been told to stop and enjoy, but ALL the things. Big, small, good, bad, happy, sad...I know its been said, but it's SO true. These are ALL the things that make up who we are.
I say this because I almost lost someone VERY DEAR to me and I know I would have been devastated. Emergency Averted...for now. The reality that this was just a sign that we're lucky to still have time together but someday it will come to an end, still lingers. This person even said to me before,during and after it all..."We all have to go." I don't want to bring anyone down. Please, I have shed many tears and I would actually like and hope that maybe saying this may spark in someone the recognition that took me too long to register... and that is to try and cherish MORE if not ALL MOMENTS. Live in this moment, and if you're lucky enough...the next and the next. My heart goes out to anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one. I have seen some of the light we all carry inside us diminish slightly when someone near and dear has moved on.
LOVE. I say LOVE. I can't and wouldn't even attempt to tell anyone who and what to love because our lives can all be so different and yet so similar. We may all have different stories and varied characters in our lives, but we ALL need love. For me, it's my family, friends and my and my family's dogs.
Allow yourself to be loved and love. Allow yourself that.
and...LEAVE, leave the past behind you...try at least.
Leave things to be said...said. Leave things to be done...done. Of course, as realistically as life allows.
I say all this because in a matter of seconds, I thought,NO I KNOW...I was watching someone SO DEAR leaving us and in all the chaos and panic, tears and fear...I still had to say and do SO MUCH.
So DO, LEAVE yourself open to LOVE and LIVING.
Take care friends...care of yourselves and each other.