looking for a relationship vs chilling

Pretty much what Makoto said - I find that if you go into something with the expectation of looking for a date/romance - and that doesn't happen, it makes it harder to be friends (and thus also any future chances if you just tried too early are gone too) If you go into it just being friends, and eventually find your self attracted to a persons personality and physically. Well go from there. Otherwise everyone is a prospect and you have lots of failures, but this way you succeed a lot more because you get to make new friends and learn new things!

I go through phases of actively searching for nice, communicative people, looking for someone to talk to until 2am, and looking for someone to drink and mess around with. It usually depends on how stressed i've been or how fun the other person is. Ability to chill is a must!

I have a mixture of both so I'm able to relax while also waiting for that person to come my way without having to worry since I already have enough while trying to work on my life.