slipping away..

Gone are the days (or the movies) when you could just tell someone that you 'kinda' liked him and he says 'hey,me too!' and zippididoodah! they're gazing affectionately at each other within minutes.
I think people back then were less complex, less demanding and less expectant. How things changed, I wsh I knew.
How do you 'be ready' for a relationship?How do you know when you've moved on? Till he/she is no more on your mind?till you stop reminiscing?that ridiculous...
Is it gonna come as registered mail that you're ready for a relationship? Will the angel of God appear to you like it did to Mary? Can you just get up and decide that "Today,I'm gonna like X"? Can you? Whatever happened to "Listen to your gut feeling and screw the world?"
How do you prepare yourself for a new relationship? Do you try to change all your bad points that caused misery in the previous one? Why do that when someone wants you they way you are? When someone wants to make your negatives her reason to smile? How do you turn away?How do you walk away from something you’ve not tried? It seems that sincerity is an idea of the past...
Normally I'd say,"His/her loss!"...not these days though...
Bemused, I often laugh at how some people can be immaculately stupid sometimes. Yesterday, I had to fight the tears...