Wrong all along

All my life I’ve been told that a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. What’s that all about? Not ending sentences with prepositions is a very difficult rule to work around. It’s definitely a pressure I could do without.\nLike sleeping through an alarm or forgetting that you left your oven turned on until three days into your vacation, ending a sentence with a preposition is a mistake we have all made before. I know that I, for one, have been breaking the rule all along. No matter how hard I try to resist, some habits are nearly impossible to break away from.\nMost of us were warned about this improper use of prepositions in elementary school, and teachers have been happily deducting points from our essays ever since. But in real-life conversations, we always end our sentences with prepositions when our English teachers aren’t around. So why must we be forced to rearrange the words of our sentences when we write them down? I know that if I don’t place prepositions at the end of my sentences when I’m telling a story, I often forget where I’m at. And we all know that the person who points out when someone misuses a preposition is a person nobody wants to be around.\nI often wonder where exactly this silly rule came from. How long has this rule even been around? I tried to research these important questions on Google and Wikipedia, but the answers were hard to come by.\nDid Moses shout it down as a commandment from the mountain he was standing on top of? Or did the heavens open up while God warned humanity of improper preposition placement with a deep and rumbling voice from above? More likely, it was probably a group of pretentious scholars who thought this whole thing up. I bet they sat around and tried to think of the most pointless and ridiculous rule possible, and this is what they finally settled on. Actually, they probably just wanted to look smarter and more intellectual than the rest of us, and that’s all it was really about. Maybe causing grief to future students was a goal they were also working toward. Regardless, it disgusts me that we have been accepting it as the rule, without question, in all the centuries following. As a society, this blind submission to authority is something that we must learn to work past.\nI say that now is the time for us to fight to change this grammatical guideline that I am so strongly against. After devoting much mental energy to considering this issue, there is one obvious solution that I have finally stumbled upon. I say there should be a new rule, that every sentence must end with a preposition because this is what we talk like, what comes from within. I don’t know about you, but my proposed preposition requirement is an idea that I could really get used to.