Love is unpredictable. Love is sporadic. Love is total madness. There really are no rules on how to find love or be in love. There is also no warning that informs anyone when love is going to sneak up on them. It is very important to be attentive in all scenarios and encounters because a connection can form in any circumstance and once the words are spoken there is no taking them back. Imagine a world with a reset button. A world where every time you say the wrong words, you can go back in time in the middle of a conversation and correct what was said wrong. In David Ives' short one-act play, a relationship between two young individuals is built and rebuilt repeatedly in the name of a bell. Although the piece is brief, Sure Thing resembles various avenues and ideas about how individual human beings interpret love and how maybe, just maybe, it's all based entirely on timing. Timing can be the greatest blessing or the worst form of fate. In this case, the timing had to be right before the possibility of true love could surface. The meaning of the bell lies between the lines of the text. The bell creates a barrier that separates the determining factors of a relationship between two people. This allows characters to reinvent themselves mid-conversation. The bell pushes the audience to feel the passage of time while triggering the opportunity for the characters to reunite. It also creates an environment in which the audience can feel amazed by the characters' endless possibilities for conversation. The bell is the determining factor in the direction the two will take in their new acquaintance. Human beings are flawed and we often tend to say bad things in the middle of a paper......hey love- phenomena at first sight - it just took a long time to get there. In other words, once their filtration systems were satisfied, the two felt enough in common to embark on the love journey on a whim. Bill and Betty found a connection characterized by a surge of positive emotions in a micro-moment. Although the comedy had a happy ending, it also highlights how unrealistic and somewhat random this kind of situation is and how timing is even more important. in real life. There is no button in this world to reset the time or do a redesign. What's done is done. There's only chance that one person's timing synchronizes with another's and their worlds become one and embark on the wild journey of love. Works Cited Gwynn, RS "Sure Thing". Literature: a pocket anthology. New York: Longman, 2002. N. pag. Print.