Whatever it was, it was Congress60’s help
The tenth session of the 24th Congress60 public workshop for Salehi branch travelers was administered on January the fourth, 2020 at 5 p.m. by the traveler and the guide Jamal as the master of ceremony, traveler Meysam as the guest speaker and traveler Hamidreza as the secretary. The agenda was “my help to Congress60 and Congress60’ help to me”.
Session master: This agenda has two parts, my help to Congress60 and Congress60’s help to me. The first part makes no sense for me as I ponder on any subject (of my life), I conclude that this is Congress60 which is continually helping me. If I look back when I was a drug abuser, I had a cocoon around me that was constantly tightened by drug usage and there was almost no light in it. Through the cocoon of addiction, I was hanging around and I had lost a lot of things both in the visible side (in my body and physiology like my appearance) and invisible part of myself such as my social status and family status.
The drug consumer gets a view through using drugs and he sees the environment around him based on drugs and starts acting on it, and I, in turn, have gone through this process. I experienced addiction for about 28 years. The attitude I had before using drugs had been derived from unawareness and I thought through using drugs, I could achieve many goals such as good feeling [welfare] and everything I was looking for. I thought through using drugs, I could find anything I had ached for.
But after a while, I realized that addiction just looks good and deceptive and it works exactly conversely because I lost what I had. After a few years of consuming drugs, I looked for many ways to get rid of the addiction but I failed and eventually, I came to the conclusion where I told myself this issue had no solution and I had to cope with my addiction and continue living like this. It was god willing that I found Congress60 and when I went along the path and realized that what was happening to me before and I had not figured it out because addiction is like a veil which made me ignore a lot of events and happenings around me.
An addict blames everyone but himself and finally if there is no one to blame, he blames God for everything. However, in Congress60 when beside the treatment process I tried to correct my worldview, I realized what was going on in the universe, and where my position was.
I always tell my pupils that Congress60 is like a funnel that we enter it from the small side. The farther we get, the more open our eyes are and the better our understanding of life. I had never believed in God myself, but later I realized that divine forces were always delivering messages to me, but I was always seeing anti-values. I entered Congress60 and implemented everything I learned then I figured out how much easier the life gets for me and the farther I get, the more I enjoy life.
Going back to the first part of the agenda, I find that I really couldn't help Congress60. Everything we do is for ourselves and we receive something. I have never seen any payment in Congress60. Whatever you do returns to you whether good or bad. I am only serving myself and I get its result, my welfare. In fact, I have used Congress60 as a tool to feel better. I have never helped Congress60’s progress and excellence practically, it was all receiving.
Written by traveler Milad
Translated by traveler Ehsan A