[OSList] Lonely

[John Watkins via OSList]

And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:

Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

John

On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:

> Annamarie,
> 
> Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.
> 
> I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own):
> 
> * populated
> * sociable
> * befriended 
> * close
> * frequented
> * inhabited 
> * loved
> * unlonely 
> 
>     Warm Regards,
>     Harold
> 
> On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. 
>> 
>> For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English....  Does your language have a word that is the opposite of "lonely"? 
>> 
>> Feel free to respond to me off list.. 
>> 
>> annamarie at pluharconsulting.com 
>> 
>> Thanks! 
>> 
>> Annamarie Pluhar 
>> 
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