The Ailings and Awards of Arranged Marriage

Dear Kitty, (I got the inspiration for this name from "The Diary of Anne Frank", one of the books that I am currently reading, just so you know).
Earlier tonight, I was busy reading the second book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce, when it mentioned being noble and trying not to care who you married just because of their rank in society and that got me thinking: what if we had arranged marriages like they did in the Renaissance time period, here in the present??

What would our lives be like if our parents got to pick who we married based on their, or our, rank in society?
Well, personally, I think it would suck, but at the same time, people who thought it was hopeless that they'd ever find someone to be with, would have a husband/wife securely in place for them to marry as soon as they both came of age, or however that works!

Looking at that aspect of it, I think it'd be a pretty sweet deal, to have your parents do all the dirty work and pick out a suitable life mate for you ahead of time, so you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of finding one yourself later in life...

*sigh* *grumbling* But, of course, if you looked at it logically (which I hate doing, since I like to try and focus on the positive side of things, but whatever, sometimes we have to do things that we don't like to do- God, I sound like my mother now!) you'd know that that plan would eventually backfire, since, if your like every other normal human being on the planet, you'd instantly go looking for something better as soon as the novelty wore off, or, on the other hand, if your secured husband/wife turned out to be a jerk, or if you fell madly in love with someone of your choice, then you'd probably want to kick your current life mate to the curb, for his sake and for yours, but doing that would mean divorce, and I highly doubt that your parents, back then, or nowadays, would appreciate it very much if you declared to them, just out of the blue one day, that you were leaving the man/woman that they had worked so hard and so long to secure for you, with the pulling of many strings too, probably, to make that happen, but I say, when it comes down to matters of the heart, you should do what you want to do, not what others want you to do, because if you let their decisions control your every move your whole life, especially when it comes to something as important as who you spend the rest of you life with, then you'll be miserable, for sure.

So I also say, screw laws like arranged marriage or even what your parents want and what they think is "best for you" and just do what you want to do with your life, whether it be in love, work, or any other area of your life, because ultimately, only you can decide what is best for you!

Yours,
Scottish Scriber