After watching 'The Other Boleyne Girl'. What a drab life they had back then. Parents in control, choosing your husband or wife when you're still a kid, based on social and economic profits for the family. Most people born, living and dying in their respective social classes with no chance to get out of them. Women expected to marry and have as many kids as they can, as fast as they can. King above them all, ordering people around on a whim. Not like now when you choose your own path, anything's possible if you really want it, no mad tyrant will kill you because you were too ambitious... freedom! Right. So you can go and choose wrong having no experience of the world, end up being with somebody random you met through your parents friends cause you're too scared to be alone any longer, get stuck in a job you don't want where a boss orders you around on a whim, in a life you never wanted to live. Hows this better? It's not even much different.
I'm not saying I'd like to live in yonder times in a dirty cottage or playing deadly pretending game at king's court, happy in a way people who have no choice and know that may be. I'd rather struggle and fail and get all confused and sometimes get my small success. My point is, freedom keeps some people alive. But its lack of structure means so many people get lost in their lives these days, or give it up without even realising, it's kind of sad.
So, you are free. What are you gonna do with your life...?
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