Highway of Life

A few months ago I was driving and suddenly as I was looking at the curve of the highway ahead of me and saw all the cars on the road ahead, and had an epiphany¹.

I realized how much life mirrors a highway. We are all on the same road (spiritual evolution), headed in the same direction (our Christ consciousness or God Realization).

Cars representing the amount of stuff, wealth, or baggage that we carry around with ourselves on this road. Some are driving in their Mercedes, or Toyotas, or Bentlies, or Hummers, or Ferraris, or in my case Hyundai Accents.

Some of us are taking an active part in accelerating our spiritual growth by taking part in some kind of spiritual tradition, organized or otherwise, and it could be said that those people are in the “fast lane”.

Some are taking the time in the slow lane.
Some are just cruising along in the passenger seat or the back seat.
Some are stranded on the side of the highway; may be they have a challenge they have in their life that they are trying to fix before getting back on track. May be that challenge is part of their evolution.

Then there are those who have taken an exit and gotten lost in the side streets, i.e. getting addicted to illeagal or psychiatric drugs or alcohol.
May be they are wrapped up on some video game, fantasy football, Dungeons & Dragons, or some other fantasy for 3 days straight.
May be they spend their time in casinos voluntarily handing over whatever the taxman has left of their hard-earned dollars.

May be they spend all their time working at a job they get no satisfaction from, and then come home and spend the rest of their time on reality tv and various series designed to get them hooked while someone else steals their country away.

There are many hooks, distractions, and traps on the highway of life.

But in any case, we are all part of this journey and we are on this road together, so let us show each other more compassion and respect, and lend each other a helping hand when possible.

God bless.

Farhad Kazemi
http://www.farhadkazemi.com

1. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Hello World

Hello everyone,

Finally after a few years of procrastinations and deliberations and Q&A I got my first blog up and running. I am at the same time working on my first website (www.farhadkazemi.com) which I started a couple of weeks ago. Things are going pretty good and ideas just keep coming to me.
As our Chinese friends have been saying for millenia, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. I figured that if I’m going to be coaching people back to health, or in business, or life in general, then I better start leading by example and take that first step. As they said in The Secret, you don’t have to see the whole stair case; just take the first step.

So often in life we get caught up in our own mental debate that we never make that first decision to start. If you wait like I did for many years to get everything right and see the whole plan before starting to take action, then nothing will happen, and your plans, projects, and dreams will never take shape.

I was just talking to my cousin in Germany a couple days ago and he told me that he wants to do something, and after a couple of questions he admitted that he likes to write. Then he presented me with his own “mental debate” that he is interested in it, but he was never good at it, but he likes it, but he doesn’t know in which language to write, when to write, how often to write, etc., etc. After a few of my encouragements he agreed that he would just start writing, for himself, that way there would be no fear of being evaluated or judged.

We all hate to be judged, specially when we create something that is so personal to us as writing.

Release and let go of your fears of being judged.

You are you.

You are unique.

You are valuable.

Take the first step.

The life of your dreams is waiting for you.

Just take the first step.

I have taken mine.