Dating - What Is It?

Dating is an age old tradition of man, involving two people of the opposite sex. Interestingly, surveys far and wide reveal that only a very small percentage of all dates are planned. Innocent relationships often shift from platonic to romantic unions. Since there are no sets of prescribed setting for fulfilling a date, people often begin to date innocently. By the time they wake up to their new position in the stream of time, much waters would have already passed under the bridge. Consider the following dating scenarios.

In the first one, a young woman receives a costly Rose from someone of the opposite sex. As she examines the delicate petals, she feels the charming tenderness in the sender's heart.

In the second scenario, a young man asked a person of the opposite sex out for a diner. The atmosphere around the diner is charged with happy laughter for the magic of pairing.

In the final scenario, an unwed couple were strolling around the quiet waters of a canal in the sunset of a beautiful evening. Together, the charms of mutual interest stirred by water creatures, their croaking, whistling and chirping, with the thrill of the cool breeze of the evening, wove them into a single soul. And life became nothing but one pleasant melody of paradise.

All three situations above, are examples of a few ideal settings for dating. However, dating does not always need to take a formal setting as any of the above. It sometimes takes sharing a cup of tea with this same person of the opposite sex frequently, returning from school or work with a particular person of the opposite sex all the time or simply enjoying leisure with this person regularly.

There is also this feeling associated with it that changes the speed of romantic union at a million percent per second. This is often called love, but is it?

 Dating is the meeting or closeness of two persons of the opposite sex for the purpose of investigating each other. It is most of the time, just that pairing and the magic surrounding it. There must however be elements of particularity and relative regularity for such meetings or closeness to constitute dating. But what is the objective of this these two persons' investigation? This will be the subject of the next article.

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