I see where you are coming from, but I don't think "looking" for love prevents you from finding it. Sure, if you're obsessed about being with someone you'd come across as needy and fake, but actively putting you out there as 'available' is not something that makes you undesirable or "too practical" about love.

I know plenty of people who are so afraid to acknowledge what they want, that they made themselves unapproachable. Being open and willing to be part of something is a necessary requirement. The notion of "being swooped off your feet" by True Love ™ is a a bit of a remnant of a time where one party was passive and the other eagerly active.