In How I Met Your Mother, the first episode serves to introduce us to the main cast of characters. In this episode we meet, Ted, Lily, Marshall, Barney and Robin. Lily and Marshall get engaged and Ted has a mini crisis that he’ll always be the lonely “Uncle” figure in his friends lives. He sets off to impress Robin, whom he meets at the bar, conveniently located under their apartment. He takes her out and misses his chance to kiss her goodnight when she is interrupted by a coworker looking for her. He says he didn’t get the “signal” from her. He realizes later after talking to his friend that he should have kissed her and proceeds to head back to her apartment late at night to do so. He screws this all up by telling her he loves her after their first date. After he gets back to his friends, they tell him he should have kissed her after all this had happened because she gave him the signal, a long lingering pause.
So what does this all have to do with me?
It’s all Scott’s fault. Although Nathan was officially the first friend to get engaged, I was closer with Scott due to a bunch of circumstances before. He was the one that made me realize I needed to get a move on finding someone. Like Ted, I wanted to find my true love, but I always had problems that came up and nothing ever came from any girl I knew. At this point in my life, I’m 26 (Ted was 27 at the start of the season) and I’m single once again. My best friend and my oldest friend I talk/see regularly are married and another friend is engaged. I just feel like at this point in my life I should have this crap figured out. I should be on that same road. I had a nail in my tire and I’m trying to recover once again. But it’s hard. Ted says that he’s no good at being single and for Robin to give him a chance. I know I’m not good at being single, because I’m a guy who loves to pamper another person. Cook, gifts, etc, etc. I’m just an all around good guy that is unlucky as hell and indecisive as hell.
The signal is the thing I look for all the time. I’m constantly looking for a way to make my move and the longer I take my time, the further I move away from that person. It seems I share the same problem with Ted, I’m always on the look for the signal, but as Barney says, you have to just go in and kiss her and you will know if it works or not, at least you did that much. And that’s my problem, I don’t just do it, I wait around for the signal. I can think on many times where I should have just done it, but I held back, why? I don’t know. My brain is always throwing up blocks on my body. Maybe that’s what I just need to do, do it and see where things go instead of worrying so damn much. I just don’t know about myself sometimes.
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