Close Your Eyes and Open Your Mouth: Here Comes Dating

You know that feeling you get the day after Halloween. You just stuffed yourself rotten with Twizzlers and Reese's and Skittles and Starburst, and where are you now? Laying on the floor in a pile of wrappers, chocolate staining your mouth and fingers, reaching out for the refrigerator. Your craving: veggies. Broccoli, celery, carrots, green beans. Anything, just get them and eat them. Nothing else will suffice. And you'll stop at nothing to get it. Remember that feeling.

So, let me present to you this dilemma I had a while back. Dating: Relationship vs. Fun. The heavyweight bout. What I refer to is the end product. Should I date for the sake of building a relationship or to just have a great time. Now, I'm not saying that these formidable foes don't have anything in common. They are actually very similar in appearance. The problem, that I found out, is that they produce two very different things. And the one word that separates the two is: Expectation.

Dating is basically a game of "close your eyes and open your mouth." In more ways than one. I mean, at first you have no idea what it is you're sinking your teeth into. It can be immediately delicious, it can get better with every bite, and it can also make you feel like you're on an episode of Fear Factor. Long story short, if it tastes bad, don't try to stomach it. If it's delicious, or getting that way, the last thing you want to do is feel like you just devoured a pillowcase full of Snickers and Gummy Worms. Because it could take a while to realize if it's yummy in a frozen blueberries or a King Sized 3 Musketeers kind of way.

Sorry ladies, for comparing you to food, but you know what they say: the best way to man's heart is through his stomach.