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Mango Dialogue

"Peel, cut, chew, suck, swallow...Breath, feel, sing, tell, write" Does the process of eating a mango relate to the process and stages of life? Is a mango a symbol for life? Those were just some of the many thoughts crossing my mind when reading the mango dialogue. Writing can be a two-face coin, one full of "brainstorming, outlining, free writing and other prewriting techniques", and the other with deeper ideas and different motivations. For example, when you are writing a poem, the things that you less think of are spelling, presentation or vocabulary. When writing a poem, the writer must be in a certain state of mind, and into something about the motivation behind writing that specific poem. That stage, when you know no one else will read that poem, is like letting all your inner preliminary feelings out, comparing to the feelings that you experience when you enjoy eating a mango.

I agree with Carlos statement about how we all live in this alienated world suffering from constipated imagination, afraid of what is outside the box surrounding us, sticking to the safe, and disregarding anything new that one may find in imperfection.

We are all different and specific human beings, with dissimilar and unique ways of writing. Some, like Alex may lack trust in prewriting, and others might be used to writing messy first drafts. However, either one way or the other, none of the writing techniques can really tell what you are really thinking until you put all your thoughts together not in your head, but in a piece of paper. That is a way of unleashing the stream of consciousness nonsense in your head. One must learn to look at its result without any kind of judgment. Whether, if you consider the work a piece of art, or just shit, it was useful to your inner thoughts, opening the doors to the fearless dogs that run inside your head. At the end of everything, you discover a new feeling, the one that “nothing really gets flushed down the toilet when it comes to writing”.

As Carlos mentioned, “Food is divine! So are words”. All of us go through different processes, such as living, loving and liberating, just as the life of a mango. We will all be digested and liberated, and in the meantime, all that you can do is value every “unsuccessful” second of life and thank God for mangoes.