A Good Man Is Hard Find

Inspiration from Flannery O’Connor

That might seem like an odd title for a blog post. It’s also an odd title for a short story. And yet, it is the title for one of my favorite short stories by Flannery O’Connor. More importantly, finding good men is a very real problem today, not only in our culture, but in our media. Media is more often than not filled with bad men. Many young people lack the role models they need to get ahead in life, opting out of a successful academic or vocational career in their twenties for playing video games in the basements of their parents. That might seem like a joke or maybe even a cliche. I wish it was. But it is in fact our new reality.

And why not? Life is tough. Video games, movies, internet chatrooms, aren’t. There’s no danger within the safe confines of these virtual worlds. But they are only virtual worlds. Men lose something when they opt out of real life, real danger, for these substitutes.

An Adventure Waiting to Happen

Not all adventures look the same. If you look at the heading for my blog page, you’ll see that the heading I chose is “adventure starts here”. Really? In a blog? Sure. Creativity can very much be the start of a great adventure. Once you make something, and people begin to enjoy it, you never know where that adventure might take…