Dating Your Best Friend?

Is it a good idea for best friends to start dating??

this is one loaded question!!.. lets see... maybe its a great idea... someone who accepts you the way you are and someone you're very comfortable with... isn't that what we all look for in a relationship!!!... maybe not!!!... would you like being with someone who could read your mind even at times you dont want them to??... someone who already has sky-high expectations from you as a friend and now that increases even more... how about there being no mystery left in the relationship since you already know each other inside out??... talk about two sides of a coin!!!

but what happens if it doesn't work out??... can you still be great friends??... or do you cringe at the very thought of them??... I've known both kinds of people... I've even been in both the situations!!!... lets just imagine what happens if you remain great friends who decide to end the relationship amiably... you talk about it and decide that it is probably the best thing to do but promise to be the same friends that you were... maybe even better friends than that... you talk about everything under the sun... you think that it will all work out beautifully... but actually one or maybe even both of you are hung up on the other and are just playing along and acting like every thing's great... you still feel the same way and cant get over the feelings that you shouldn't be having anymore... you cant stand the fact that maybe you are not the only person in the other person's life and they do have other friends too... so you start picking up on things that never really mattered before... 'How could you do this?' or 'I would never have done something like that!' or 'You've changed!' and it goes on and on and on... so which one of the two suffers the most in such a situation??... the one who 'seems to have' moved on or the one who cant accept the way things have changed??
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i guess there cant be any definite answer to this but my guess would be both of them!!!... one of them cant understand why things have to change between the two of them and that hurts... and the other is trying to disguise their feelings to an extent that it hurts way too much... and to keep all that inside you has got to hurt!!!...
so i guess there's no good way out of love!!!... probably the reason why all of us never want to be out of love!!!...