Timing is EVERYTHING

Whenever someone said to me "timing is everything" or "it'll just take time" I use to get really fired up. Mostly it was because something was happening that was out of my hands. But the more I look at situations whether they're mine or other peoples, timing really is everything.

Definitely, Maybe is a really cute movie staring Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fischer, Abigail Breslin and Rachel Weisz. If you haven't seen it, its a story about a father telling his daughter how he met her mother and flashes back into different moments in his twenties as he leaves and meets three women.

There is a scene that I love where Ryan and Isla as good friends are talking about meeting the right "someone" - they both have these harbored feelings of affection towards one another which makes the scene really saucy. Isla feels rejected by him while Ryan starts to look at her in a different way. Anyways, Isla says something like "a man for instance can meet a ton of amazing and beautiful women, but they'll never be the right one until he's ready to find the right one. The right one ends of being whoever your with when you're ready to settle down - most of the time it's the timing and maybe not even the person".

I think it's the most honest way to look at relationships. How many amazing people have you met or been with when the only reason you can think of NOT being together is based on a circumstance like geography, the wrong frame of mind, or even another person?

The hopeful romantic in me wants to ignore the thought of time, but the realist in me wakes up and says "shit happens for a reason" and being an optimist pushes me to believe that things (no matter the flavor) usually work out. What do you think? Are you a realist or a romantic?