The roller coaster...

Is there any other activity that is as unpredictable and random as dating? Sure, you can participate in a bungee jump or guide a canoe down a steep creek, but the excitement aspect of it is expected - after all, that's why you seek it out in the first place. Dating in my experience has been the opposite - you go in expecting an entertaining enough time but don't really pin your hopes on any one particular outcome lest you be repeatedly and severely disappointed. At least you will have tried that restaurant you've always been talking about or finally have an original and misshapen unique mug that you promised to make one day, a la a bad version of 'Ghost'.

And so there are truly few other things that can give you as much of an intoxicating rush as 'the perfect date.' When it all does actually come together and go well beyond what you imaged, you feel an overwhelming rush,  almost like you have to take a step back just to take it all in. To bask in this effervescent, preternatural sense of being, while realizing that although outcomes such as this are few and far between, they make the entire process redeem itself.  Serving as a beacon of dating bliss, the above lead us onward to continue to strive for even more occasions that match in intensity and excitement... Admitting to the fact that chemistry between two people can indeed lead to something so beautiful and fragile yet powerful and grandiose at the same time is a very humbling realization to come to. That so much of one's own happiness can be derived from a shared experience, be so dependent on another seems almost contrary to human nature. One can only hope that it lasts and does not recede with time...

And when someone asks you to leave the ride, you hold on for dear life and ask if you can do it all over again.