Why waiting to date someone too long will fail

I have heard someone's own experienced and it made me think of a lot of things in a relationship. True love does wait, yes, but true love also takes action and no action means no love can form. There is a difference between proactively waiting for someone and merely passively waiting.

Someone i know liked a girl and she liked him back, so what prevented him from actually asking her out? Fear of rejection and perhaps commitment. It was a lack of self-confidence and courage. She made an effort to attract him and kept contact with him even if they had a long-distance friendship. She waited...waited...and waited...nothing..no response..until finally, she stopped waiting and married another man, giving up hope that he would ever make a move. He became so upset that he had become seemingly depressed and obsessed over her.If only he had used all of that time to muster the courage, the willpower, hope, and self-confidence to ask her out, the outcome of his choice may have produced a happy, successful marriage full of life, love, joy, and fulfillment, but what did he choose to focus on? Insecurity, fear, a lack of motivation, hopelessness, and a lack of choice, so that is what he was left with. Waiting patiently for love does not mean dwelling on your flaws, but finding ways to improve, it means being active with your own character. Waiting too long may cause you to lose someone who is in reality a potential mate. It was by your own failure to act that you lost someone so dear to you and before you realize it..it's too late, attraction fades followed by hope. You may hurt the other person which would then cause them to stop waiting for you and move on with their lives.

For those of you in this situation, what will you do? Will you keep improving as you wait or will you just be waiting without any intention of taking action towards the person you have affection for? Think about the choices you make or don't make because one way or another, the outcome could go in your favor or you will find yourself completely lost in despair, guilt, depression, loss of confidence, and regret that you did not take action when the time had come.