Knackered Calls Out The  MoBros with Benzos

   Hey there, Knackered here.  November is generally cited for its call to belly up up to the table and ingest with kith and kin.  If that’s not really your thing this year, there’s plenty more for the guys in our midst.  

   In fact if you are a guy and capable of growing facial hair on your upper lip, this could be the most important month of your life.  It’s Movember gents and time to embrace the brotherhood of the Mo Bros.

   Starting with a pint or two in an Australian Pub back in 2004,  Travis Garrone and Luke Slatterly conversed about the demise of the Mo or mustache as it’s more widely known.  As they waxed on, the decision was gradually reached that a unified front was needed; both to engender regrowth of the ‘Mo’ and to motivate men to better health.  Modeling their idea after a mom’s efforts to support breast cancer awareness, they found twenty six other guys willing to put out the hair and cash to get things  started.  

   Charging the bros ten bucks each to grow a Mo, the organization has grown into a global nonprofit with the aim of increasing men’s awareness and diagnoses of prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and help and hope for men’s wellness everywhere.  Headquartered in Melbourne, the organization has raised millions since and has outreach affiliates throughout the world.  

   Guys are inherently lousy in regard to the condition of their bods and health in general.  There’s an urgent need for men to develop awareness concerning their thoughts, feelings and behaviors.  Once this begins to happen, the door is opened for an overall need to be in touch with all things health wise and follow through with routine wellness. 

   Not to beat up our gender too badly, we need to recognize that we fail badly when it comes to manning up in the exam room.  Time, money, and the notion of being the tougher gender is hardly credible in the modern age.  Regardless of country, basic exams are government funded in all developed nations.  We just have to get ourselves there. Wives and female partners wind up there quite naturally in the course of life events, but we are the hopeless ‘dragrees’.  

   Knackered himself has unfortunately had to walk the talk when a physical exam by his GP found lumps that needed surgery, radiation treatments, and years of repeated testing to remedy.  But he remains today, facial hair and all.  

   Perhaps things are best summed up by an ancient quote, “A man may conquer a million in battle, but the one who conquers himself, is indeed, the greatest of conquerors” (Buddha).  Of course he is.