is it? or isn't it....?

i was reading yesterday, about this woman who had decided that marriage was obsolete. she claimed that back when people were farmers, they needed a life partner, and the children to help them survive. but now with the institution of women's rights and equality and such, now, instead of being necessary, it's just a nuisance. and now parents are over-parenting their children. i was thinking about this a lot. my initial reaction after hearing this was huh, that makes sense. but i suppose that i am too attached to the institution of marriage and i was trying to find some way to justify the other way around. but i was thinking. if marriage is obsolete, than why are so many people GETTING MARRIED? even if half of them get divorced, a good chunk of divorcees decide to get remarried.
i was thinking, that the institution itself may not be so crucial to our survival. but people still have this need to find their life partner. we start at an early age. one of the first questions we ask people that we just meet "do you have a girlfriend" maybe most of the hunting is really about sex, but at the same time. many people believe that you need to have feelings for someone before you do the dirty. even if you wait for the second date... but even if it wasn't about sex, most people put a huge amount of time and energy into relationships. with friends or with future lovers. it seems like one of the most important things, is spending time with people you love. i think that we all have a desire to live with someone, to share our life. even people who never get married, or waste away in some super huge office building controlling minions. people want to be with other people. people want to be understood. so, i think that even if marriage doesn't benefit society. it doesn't really need to... it benefits the individuals.

i've always wondered how they get the toothpaste with different colors, to come out in their separate sections. at first i just thought, that they put it in the tube like that. but then i was thinking, NO, because when you squish it around so much, it's going to mix. so now i have this theory that there are thin plastic dividers inside the toothpaste tube, to keep everything separated... yeah.... this is what i think about.