Random Roomie Rick's First Post

Hey guys, we collectively noticed that a couple posts were missed this week, from which arises the need for random roomie to show himself for the first time, call me Rick. So here I am. Here's the question for you all this week: What is the right way to handle relationships?
People fall under two categories:

1) Those who jump too quickly into relationships without weighing their options
                       and
2) Those who consider too long and never commit

How would you classify yourself? And more importantly, who's right? If you're type 1, how long do you wait for type 2? If you're type 2, how do you make sure that type 1 actually likes you? Are two type 1's a recipe for heart break? Are two type 2's destined to live with commitment issues for the length of their relationship?
I wish I could answer this. I wish any of us could! But maybe that's just how you know when you've finally found the right one. When you act differently than your original nature. For type 1 that would mean stepping back and actually considering the person, with all of their pros and cons, and considering a real future with them. For 2 realizing that you don't need time to decide, knowing it's going to work without mapping all possible futures.

But hey what do I know. I'm not married yet so I couldn't use experience to tell all of you how it happens. Maybe that fairy tale moment when you 'just know' doesn't happen at all. What if deciding it's more like jumping off of a cliff without ever having seen the bottom? Terrifying. Yet somehow the ending is more beautiful than you were told, if only for the risk you took to get there. Or maybe it's like finally finishing a masterpiece. Each stroke painstakingly placed just so. You know what you were making when you began, and the sum of the whole is everything you imagined, nay everything you planned it to be.

Look at me get all deep. I'm a regular... Famous person that wrote good. Keep faith dudes! Love works out at some point.

Rick