Comments on: The Importance of Living Life http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Weekend Reading http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225249 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225249 [...] The Importance of Living Life: by Om Malik. “In our life we spend too much time agonizing over things related to work, almost forgetting to celebrate and savor the little, countless moments of joy and happiness. And that’s what life is all about.” [...]

]]> By: Gina von http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225248 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:03:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225248 This post is wonderful tribute to your friend. I keep coming back to these two sentences:
If one event bookended the start of the journey, then the other simply highlighted the destination. And in the process it taught me that it is how we live that is really important.

Really well said Om.

]]> By: Shannon http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225247 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:28:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225247 Wow! That was a very powerful story. Thank you for that.

]]> By: Supriya http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225246 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:28:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225246 For every reminder the universe serves up on the fraility and incredible beauty of life–like this post, or a dear 34-year old friend battling aggressive thyroid cancer who happens to be one of the funniest gals I hang out with, or my daughter’s uncontained excitement at her first lemonade stand this summer–I can only say Thank You. Be well and live well!

]]> By: Mamta Narang http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225245 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225245 Thank you for sharing beautiful life’s insight. Life goes in circles of failures and success.

]]> By: Pavan K http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225244 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:49:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225244 Beautiful Om. You always bring out the best in people. All the comments here are a typical example of the impact you have on all of us. I particularly liked Patrick’s comment, and your quote from House. This helps to put aside a fear of failure and do the very best we can with what time we have…

I also lost a couple of phenomenal friends these last couple of years. Each of them in their early 30s. Each of them loved and respected by every single person they met. I now use their beautiful but strong personalities as inspiration to make them proud. To approach everything with a smile, good or bad. Overall I love how you bring us all together and inspire us. When we are all lost in the cloud, hacking away at our social media streams – your sentiments (along with something Calacanis said in one of his emails) have helped keep my feet on the ground. Thank you.

Jai Sri Om.

]]> By: Onwards… « Ramneek’s Musings http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225243 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:30:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225243 [...] The importance of living life (Om Malik, Sep 26th) [...]

]]> By: Jeff Clavier http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225242 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:13:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225242 Well said Om, these words resonated with me too. Good to see you at Rajeev’s celebration.

]]> By: Shefaly http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225241 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:08:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225241 I am glad you are in good health and long may that continue, Mr Malik.

BTW I got here when @PKedrosky tweeted this gem: Some days I want to have @om ‘s babies, tweetaphorically apeaking http://om.bit.ly/CAEd7

As they say love and laughter are the two pillars of life! Happy Vijayadashmi!

]]> By: Tiffany Leinassar http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225240 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:22:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225240 This was lovely … wonderful perspective to take into a new week. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

]]> By: David Haywood Smith http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225239 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:56:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225239 Great post – thanks for this Om!

]]> By: Amit Agarwal http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225238 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:07:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225238 Thanks for being a good role model.

+1

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225237 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:21:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225237 Beautiful sentiments, Om my friend. You and I have discussed the importance of living life more than once, and I’m glad to see you are doing so. The important things in life are not things, they are the people in our lives and how much they mean to us. Only we can show these people how much we care about them, and we must do so. It’s not good enough to think that they already know. Tell them and show them. Spend quality time with those who care.

]]> By: S Saeed Malik http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225236 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:54:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225236 Wonderfully written, and aspired to inspired. What a talent of unique thoughts of good life and bad. Will someone be able to sort out all the goodness of life, leaving the all the unwanted pains of life? How skillful one can be to bring about the ‘corona’ of life in to the arena of life! Practice goodness immeasurably.

Warm Regards
Sardar Saeed Malik
September 27, 2009

]]> By: Elizabeth Gebhardt http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225235 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:06:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225235 The world is full of synchronicity – -that I discover your blog post and that of Caterina Fake of Hunch on the same day. Both with wise perspectives on focusing on what’s important in life and not letting work take it all over.

Her post (sept 25 at http://www.caterina.net/)

]]> By: Brett Glass http://gigaom.com/2009/09/26/the-importance-of-living-life/#comment-225234 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:20:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=71667#comment-225234 Wish I could take the day off, Om. But I’m busy working at my business. People want Internet and I’ll provide it, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It’d be a lot easier to do this if I hadn’t lost all of my investors due to the threat of Internet regulation (which you and your editorial staff have been advocating on this site).

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