What's the story, Wishbone?

There are many theories as to what's going on, but the answer is probably more simple than we think.

Our culture has been turned upside down and we're currently facing a crisis of displacement and misplacement. Men have been ejected out of their role in society as women have been forced into it. //

Men have been taken away from their place as breadwinners and women have been pushed away from their natural role as caretakers, or worse, kept there while being forced to also be breadwinners. What's more, both sexes have been pushed away from each other, leaving an instinctual urge unfulfilled, increasing feelings of depression and anxiety that only grow the more people age.

In our pursuit of "success," we've lost sight of what success is.

Jesus once asked, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" It's a question worth pondering. We keep looking to succeed in a society that defines success with money, big houses, trophy wives or husbands, fame, influence, a corner office on an upper floor, and other Earthly pursuits, but while these things are nice, what's the point of them if they make you unhappy.

Wealth doesn't complete you. It greases wheels, but it doesn't bring happiness. //

Perhaps real happiness isn't in what today's society calls "success" but what God and our very nature have urged us to do.

Return to valuing the nuclear family, masculinity should be embraced and respected, men should be returned to their place as head of the household and encouraged to embrace hard work and ladder climbing, while women should be encouraged to embrace their caregiving and nurturing nature, not reject it in the name of competing with men.

Perhaps there we'll find actual success, also known as contentment and happiness.