Mango People!

"Mango People" - this word or rather phrase is stuck into my head since today evening! Thanks to the Mango Bollywood movie "Love Aaj Kal"... oops I apologize for the slang here! If you happen to understand Hindi, you would have fathomed by now - Mango means "Aam" in Hindi and "Aam" in Hindi means Ordinary!! Though an ordinary movie, it did convey some extra-ordinary msgs.

Title of this movie seems so apt - Love aaj kal - Love in modern days! I think the most important msg was conveyed by Rishi Kapoor - He became successful for love of his life while Saif broke up with his lover because he wanted to be successful! How come time has brought this drastic change in our lives. It has changed definitions of some of the most important things existing in this world!

Let me share a wonderful story with -
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A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked..

"No", she replied. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened.

"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"

The woman went out and invited the men in"

"We do not go into a House together," they replied.


"Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."


The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife.

"Go out and invite Love to be our guest.."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!!!"

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I do strongly believe in this. Love between a woman and a man, between a mother and a child, between siblings and above all between GOD and his children is such a divine thing, it can only bring along the nicest things in the universe.....

And given that we are all Mango people in broad sense :P, we can't wait to become immortal and set our names in golden letters in history books for our children and grand children to read. Lets love everyone, lets respect everyone and lets enjoy life!

I gotta go and have some mango now - man talking so much about mango, how can i restrain from having one :))

have a happy monday ----