"Oh you know, it's coming along." The most expensive lie you tell every single day

The void is a greedy beast, we’ve all felt the chill of its shadow push us into hollow isolation. We falsely believe that true strength comes from bearing this burden in solitary silence, that we can only find comfort in our own excellence. Each day we are given dozens of opportunities to connect but instead of dropping the veil and becoming vulnerable, we utter some bland non committal version of “Oh you know, its coming along”.

The friends who knew us well enough to rightly interpret every tiny tick are long gone. The bonds forged in parents’ basement while gulping down Dew have been moved to the cobwebbed corner of our minds and the friends we planned out summer seasons with exist solely in our feeds. These brothers we held so close were casually sloughed off as life marched us off to greener pastures. We failed to feel their loss believing that the pattern of fast friendships would continue indefinitely. 

Life could never be so kind, instead we have ended up replacing our old stalwarts with shallow stand-ins who prefer to erect labyrinths of bravado that lead nowhere instead of investing in the slow growth notes of emotional well being.

These new facsimiles of friendship are as empty as the calories in a bag of chips. If we ever manage to muster the courage to go out on a limb the effort goes unnoticed. The attempt is too foreign to be recognized by these strangers. We can’t accept this any longer, let's find a troop who will recognize the pain in our voice. A group of men who will create the space to spend the time to play some buck hunter, to stomp out some miles or have an evening of collectible cardboard combat. It's time to find the men who will once again ask “what's the best way I can show up?”

It's time to find what you’ve been searching for. It's time to join ManScouts, a pack who spend their weekends recharging beneath the brilliant blaze of stars in a truly dark sky. We believe in leaving things better than you found them. This isn’t just an ethos for the trail, it's a principle we apply to one another, ensuring that we make each other better. It's time to show up, not for your brothers but for yourself