Every time after I show a trick to other, I don’t know what to say as people ask me. “How did you do that?” so I usually say, “that is magic”. As I answer it. I can’t shop thinking about a question these days. Especially when I mess with some heckler. I really want to know. “What is magic?” everybody know magic is not real. But why would somebody always try to mess up with magician? Different people like different thing. I don’t expect everyone like magic, just like not everyone like music. Somebody think magic is just something for little kids to make the kids happy. But the point of magic exist is to lead everybody back to their early age. When they were young, when they still don’t know the world is cruel like is, and believes there is magic and fantastic in this world. As a people grow. The “fact” in this world makes their life boring and dull. We go to school everyday and gravity is pulling us down. Everything exist in a form of many atom consist together. We can’t make something vanish. That is why we need magic. Only magic can to bring hope to people. People hope miracle to happen. To let them know how wonderful colorful the world still is. Life is not boring as nothing is impossible, when you get your mind working.
However, what is magic? How can I do the magic? What makes me a magician? At first, I was thinking that the sleight of hand makes me different. But later on I was really upset. Cause I think is a deck of cards makes me a magician. I was really down at that time and I ask me what I am without a deck of cards. My answer was I am nothing without it. (Now is better cause I can do coin trick. Lol..) But why would somebody have a deck of card in their pocket everywhere they go and practice some sleight that wouldn’t bring help to their life. Is that a magician? Magician should make miracle. Not a card trick.
Then I perform more and more. I am really happy and be encourage every time I see people laugh and surprise. I can see the joyful in their eyes. It makes me think what I have been trying is worth doing. Then I think back. This is the same trick I show others before. How come people never react like that? My sleight is the same. The effect is still the same. Then I realize, I believe a pack of cards is only a tool; the most important is the guy who use it and how to use it. Is not about what you do. Is all about what they think. Is about what they believe. No matter how good you are. If they don’t believe, the trick wouldn’t work. But when you can make them believe well enough, that where the magic happen and make it not a trick any more. That is magic. That’s why everybody can do a trick, but not every body can perform magic.
“Art is a lie which make us realize they truth.” – Picasso
As people think in a way that “Seeing is believing.” Magicians are able to think in a different way. To me, magic is a very special way of thinking. I enjoy the fun brought by performing magic, and more than that, I found that doing magic allows me to see and think from a different angle. It is a very interesting part of magic, sometimes even more interesting than performing, to learn how a trick can be a tricky, as all the logic, psychology and thinking behind each trick.
In magic, what you see is what you get. Don’t doubt about it. You did see what you see, but can you believe everything you see?
If you hear the impossible that is Rumor.
If you see the impossible that is a Trick.
If you feel the impossible that is Magic.
Magic is an art to make people believe something impossible to happen. A deck of card wouldn’t make people believe. Is what you do make people believe. And a magician is an actor that acting somebody has superpower. When they are making people believe there are real magic and live with joyful and fun. But at the same time they are keeping a secret.
That’s the secret to all magicians. They don’t want to tell any one, and let the pain of they reality break all the fantastic created by magic. So all magicians keep this secret and just leave they pain for themselves.
However, as the society grow, as some magician who couldn’t take the pain of being a magician. They finally told the real secret of magic.
“There is no real magic.”
But we don’t afraid of that, as our mind is still working. We still believe that we can create miracle.
Let’s walk out of reality.
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