Is it possible to live OS?

[Harrison Owen]

At 12:49 PM 6/24/2003 +1200, Mike Copeland  wrote:

>I'm finding open space has hit me right between the eyes in the last four
>months. I'm taking initiative wherever I want to lately and am not waiting
>for permission; wherever that was meant to come from anyway! I'm actually
>doing what I want to do. Is that OK? I mean I thought I was meant to do
>eveything I didn't want to do!
>
>The big thing is I'm not intervening anymore. Getting out of the way is so
>freeing. I feel all my life I've been trained to get IN the way! Although
>I do miss out on that exhausted feeling.
>
>I know this may sound like I'm a babbling convert here, but quite honestly
>if this is living open space long may it continue.

Sounds like you have it right -- to me. But then what else could I say
given my reply to Raffi Aftandelian (above) ? If it is true that life is
all about self-organization, as is Open Space, when you remember what you
already are, it feels great. Certainly much better than pretending to be
something you are not???? Of course, it doesn't always feel great.
Sometimes the great hooded monsters of Chaos, Confusion, and Conflict rear
their ugly heads, and things can get downright unpleasant, made even more
so if we take it as a personal insult because they are not following our plan.

Harrison


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