From : www.manakkudiyan.com :
Disclaimer: This article was originally written and posted on 2nd August 2005 in an e-group. There will be lots of language correction and I know there is high degree of scope to improve. I did not have to re-write the article, just publishing as it was given 2 years ago. Thanks.
Yellow mango
“Wow… They are back. Great”. I was excited to see them back in their usual place. I used to see them almost every time I drive through that traffic signal. I do not know where they stay. I do not know when will they sleep and when will they get up. I have seen them in late nights and also in the early mornings when I come back from my fitness class. Looks like they are couples and sell fruits in their mobile fruit stall near a traffic signal.
When ever I drive through that road some how the mangoes they sell would attract my eyes. Those small-small mangoes with yellow, yellow with red mix and green mix would attract my eyes. It would be great to see multiple rows of yellow and yellow mangoes. I would be telling myself that God is a great artist and how many colors he has made.
When ever I see the mango in their stall, a desire would come in me to buy and to have it. Immediately I would tell myself, “It is summer, hot and by eating a mango body will become hot. Let me not but it now. Let me have it some other time”. This would be the usual thing happening to me. Almost everyday I had seen them near that traffic signal and suddenly they were disappeared. They were not there for an almost a week. I was waiting in that signal today. My eyes went to that side.. “Wow… They are back”. I was excited. Both of them were there and busy on their selling. I looked their stall and I was shocked. “Ayyo..!” There were no mangoes. Those yellow mangoes were replaced with jack fruit and corns. I felt some thing was missing. My signal was ‘ON’ and it was green. I changed the gear of the car and kept moving. But mind was with those missing mangoes.
“I had desires to buy and have those mangoes. And stopped myself saying that it was summer, very hot and mango was also hot. I kept on postponing. Mentally I waited to get summer over. Now summer is over and also the mango season.” I parked the car and walked towards the stair cases. “With my intelligence I decided that mango is not good for health in summer. What I did not realize is mango will be given only in summer and not in winter. There may be some other fruit in the winter. Mango is a gift of nature for us in the summer. It will available only in that time. HE knows when to give, what to give and whom to give. I ignored mango with my small intelligence and actually did not realize that it was given by the intelligence which runs the entire universe. HE might have given it with some purpose.”
I felt bad and started claiming the stair cases. “Like that mango, I might have ignored so many things in life. What is the use of missing some thing when it was available and thinking of ‘If only I would have known this’ later. Some thing is coming to me means, there might me some purpose. Life must be giving some thing to me. Let me not miss that. I do not want to use ‘If only’ later in my life.”
Remembered the wisdom of mastermind… “Understanding the value of something after loosing it – is foolishness. I should know the value of things when I am having it. . Realizing about dad or mum after loosing them is waste.” I was telling myself, “I should know value of things when it is available. Actually by missing that small mango, I behaved like a Big Banana (Alma mater term)”. “Thank you my yellow mango. I will not miss some thing. I will value. Oh my darling wife, my kids I am coming. I do not want to miss this moment”
I rang the bell, my wife opened the door and I stepped inside as a new person with lot of excitement. Kids were busy with their breakfast in the table and said, “Hai appaas”. I saw there and I was surprised.
There….. A fresh yellow mango was kept in a plate on the table!
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