Are you ready for a relationship?

I saw an Indian couple today, they entered the restaurant I was in and sat down next to me. The Korean waitress came to them and gave them the menu. "Let me know when you guys are ready to order," she said.

The Indian guy put the menu aside and raised his hand, "we are."

Pulling a notebook out of her pocket, the Korean waitress approached them and asked, "what would you like to order?"

"Actually," the guy looked down and flipped the menu, "give us two more minutes."

"Yeah, sure. Just let me know when you're ready," the waitress subtly rolled her eyes and walked away.

 I snorted and thought to myself how silly the guy was (to which the guy responded by glaring at me for the rest of my lunch time). But then I realized how similar he was to me. I used to think I was ready for a relationship. But really, who was I kidding? I wasn't ready for a relationship, not for a real one at least.

How many of us don't even take the time to glance at the menu, put it aside, and simply raise our hands to show that we are ready to order, while in fact, we aren't? It might be easy for us to call off and apologize when the waitress comes. To which she would roll her eyes and shrug it off.

How many of us don't even take the time to look inside ourselves? We find someone we're somewhat interested in and pretend that we are ready for a relationship. And then we would freak out when our crush is actually ready for a relationship, a real one. And we would be like, "uhh. Give me two more weeks."

If you're thinking about getting into a relationship, please, give relationship some more thought before you actually jump into it without much consideration. "Do I really want to be in a relationship with her?", "In a year, will I love her more than I do today?"

Granted, most of you are WAY (and by 'WAY' I mean 'WAYYYYYYY') more mature than me and probably have never even experienced this (and by this I mean being a douchebag). But really, if there is just one person who actually reads this post and decides to give relationships a deeper thought, then I'm glad I took the time to write this.