Behavioral Economics

I am quite happy by the fact that biology does come to every aspect of human life.
I studied business and no matter how many people say that it is a social science, or an art rather than a science, I do come across to a field named behavioral economics!
Interestingly, the scientists in this field use scientific methodology to find out the irrationality that often underlies human economic decision. The scientific methodology includes brain MRI, brain hormone analyses, and some clinical psychology investigations.
Some of the behavioral economic theories really proved to be true and one of the proponents, Daniel Kahneman received a Nobel Prize for his Prospect Theory.

That should be interesting!

Not to forget that one of John Maynard Keynes grandsons is an evolutionary biologist. :-)

About marriage

I have been eager to write about this a couple of weeks ago after I watched the Oprah show on Metro TV. It was about people having doubts when they are one step away from marriage. Frankly speaking, I am quite bored with this issue, but I still have to write this down. Especially because yesterday my friends and myself discussed this matter at the mailing list, even though the topic was finally dropped. I wonder if I am strange for I often feel a lot of people around me rushed to commit themselves in marriage without deeper thought, which finally lead them to divorce just several years after the marriage. The thing is, I don't believe that people who believe that marriage is a decision in life that they must take as another stage of life can actually make rational decision. Even I often see people say that they are in the age of maturity and therefore they are ready to commit themselves into marriage. It is a bizarre statement, if I may say, since they make the statement when they even have not met their future spouse!
Obsessed to marry is probably an appropriate phrase to describe the behavior of some people (especially women) entering the age of maturity. They say its their "biological clock" ticking.

My opinion is:
Marriage is an institution that should last forever (eternal, till death do you apart). Hence, you should be in that institution with someone whom you really want to spend your life with. Why? Because you and your spouse is a great synergy! You two have same goals in the future. And you believe that the commitment is a good investment for yourself and your next generation (if you decide to raise one).
Even animals pick their mate carefully, I wonder why human don't.

Marriage is not:
1. The next grade in your life (like in school, where you have to pass to next grade)
2. The goal of your life
3. Where you to can change to adjust each other's shape
4. Where you meet your other half that will completes you
5. Something to "fix" your significant other so he/she will not run to another person
6. A prerequisite for having children
7. Something a normal person should do
8. Something that you just have to do, no matter what.

What marriage is should be:
1. A place to share yourself because you're too full with yourself (meaning: you are complete, now you decide to share it with somebody else)
2. An investment where you should calculate the risk and return (of course!)
3. A start of a family, where you raise your kids happily and where you can run to in any situation (the last resort, the paradise)
4. Can be done in any age (no age limitation)
5. something to do when you are ready to accept other person with his/her own uniqueness with very little expectation for a change of your spouse's personality nor behavior.

So I believe it's a very difficult decision to make.

What I really hate to hear when people got divorced:
1. "Gee, I guess the God has His own way and His way is we're not together anymore"
2. "After being married, I realised that we just cannot be united"
3. "We have differences that cannot be reconciled"

If a couple do come to a decision to end their marriage, then be prepared for it! Admit it that since the first time of their relationship they just don't take it seriously. That they lied to each other, pretending they are someone else they're not in order to gain acceptance from their significant others until a point where there is no turning back and they got to marry. The bottom line is, they married for a wrong reason.

Sorry for being harsh here, but I am just so curious about the reason behind the marry-young-and-divorce-early "trend" lately.
What do you readers think?