what drives me ( a short novel LOL)
in the magic world, compared to 98% of you here on theory11. I suck. i mean not even in the same universe as you guys. But in the real world, among people who aren’t familiar with magic who don’t know what a force is. I am magic, I am astonishing, I am an illusionist, and I am the best magician some people have ever seen.
but that brings me to what drives me, I love having a talent, a gift, a skill, that is uncommon, as close to original as one can achieve, and one that nobody can understand, one that your average lay person can just observe and duplicate, I mean if I walk up to somebody and rock their world with like a few hard hitting magic tricks, if I’m successful, they won’t know how I did it, and I hear that, more than I hear my name sometimes, "HOW'D YOU DO THAT!!!???". And because they don’t know how I did it, they can't duplicate it, therefore making it even easier to be original
I also love, love, love, the reactions I get from people, the HOLY CRAP!!!!'s the "there’s no @#$^$#% way’s or the silences. The jumping up and down and screaming, and even the "HOW'D YOU DO THAT!!!" the look in people’s eyes, and the total distrust that comes from some, I did magic for a friend today, and she just stared at my hands bug-eyed, never blinked or looked up. And it’s really cool when they can't stop smiling during the trick, I got a friend, who just starts smiling when I pull out my cards, he can’t help it. My magic just brings him joy. And that’s awesome.
another thing I love is just the thrill I get when I learn a new trick and I can see the reactions, and the faces of people, before I ever do the trick, and I can’t wait to just run off somewhere by myself and practice the crap out of it, when I learned one trick with a rubber band, I ran through it for like 5 hours that night, and I had to quit because I could hardly move my pinky finger. and I still can’t do the trick (but after telling you guys about it, I’m going to go get a rubber band.)
and when I get the trick to a point that its going to take real world practice to get good at I can't wait to go out and try it on someone. Knowing that I’m most likely going to fall flat on my metaphorical face in failure. But I look forward to that failure as Thomas Edison said:
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
and each time I "fail" I get closer to "success" one more Thomas Edison quote:
"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
But the main reason why I love. absolutely love magic, and the reason why I can’t stop performing for every and anyone, is the new people who I get to meet and get to know in ways most people never do, or even getting to know people even better than I do. I love that, my friend base is so diverse, and broad because of magic, I can walk up to the geeks/ skaters/ jocks/ girls/ guys/ gangsters/ rockers/ band kids/ choir kids/ shop kids...and pull out a deck of cards, or a coin, or any of my other tricks, and blow their minds, just like that. And then I’m in and the conversation starts, I don’t have to worry about awkward icebreakers, or in the case of girls, pick-up lines.... I never say "hey, I’m web, what’s your name?" or "are you a parking ticket? cause you got fine written all over you!" never, its always "hey want to see a card trick?" or " hey can I borrow a coin for 30 seconds" or any of the other numerous ways I’ve learned to start a magic routine, it’s amazing, and people I’ve never done magic for will start to come to see me do some, either they heard about it and wanted to see, or their friends introduced them saying "you gotta see this" magic has turned me into for lack of a better term, a social butterfly, in a way, no lay person can ever experience,
and that, to me...is magic in itself, that’s what drives me. That’s what pushes me to be the best that I can be.