I’m a 27 year old army veteran, magic has been a life long passion of mine, but with serving time in the military I became a heavy drinker, partially because I had a thing (magic) so all the people in my platoon would continually bring me out to use me to impress girls and whatnot, but I rarely ever had to buy a drink at bars, that became a problem after my best friend killed him self, and I started circling into severe depression and had to be hospitalized for wanting to end it all. I got booted out of the army because I spent about a year where I wasn’t allowed to handle any weapons because the higher enlisted were afraid I’d put it right in my mouth, that only caused me to fall into further depression because I knew I wasn’t living up to what I thought I was supposed to be, then I was admitted into a hospital, and while I was there I preformed a simple three fly routine with borrowed coins for my therapist.
That moment changed a great deal of my life because I figured out I was up until that point performing magic on other peoples standards and whims, but then I was just doing what I wanted to do, how I wanted to do it, whilst engaging and interacting with my therapist. I started spending more time doing in depth studies of coin vanishes and how certain ones complement another and odd variations of retention vanishes until I was happy with a piece I had fully put together myself.
So my New Years resolutions are to do the same with card magic and to further my appreciation of coin magic whilst I try to master edge palm vanishing more coins than I’m currently able to, and to not just do magic because I have built up liquid courage