And ACR? Invisible Deck perhaps? Oh, maybe that thread reel you never took the time to setup... might as well use the time now eh?
Or would you drop the cards, the coins, the magic charade, and tell the world 1 final thing before you passed on? Would magic even matter at this point? Would you want to tell someone you love them and hold them one last time?
You see guys, sometimes we put to much importance in magic. We take a fun art form and try to make it every fabric of our lives. We replace looking into ourselves with looking into the newest DVD. We forget that being who we are on this earth is more important than a trick, yes, even the invisible deck.
So you wonder why I post this huh? Am I making some dramatic point to be a intellectual justification for me leaving or taking a break in magic? No, i'm staying put. Was it to use those big words I used two sentences ago? No, I had to use spell check to even get those out.
Its because of what I see magic doing to people on the board and to its practitioners in general. So many of us take magic as this holy untouchable immovable art form that is being nothing but disgraced. We want to compare ourselves to others so we can say we are better at this "holy art". Thats not what its about.
Think of the greats in magic... Thurston, Vernon, Houdini, ect. Why do we remember them? Because they were just themselves. They did their own thing and are remembered because they didn't take magic as some super-man like amazing art form that they just had to be better than everyone at. They did what they wanted to and on their own time. Answering to no one, and having no one answer to them.
Sure, they messed up, tricks got exposed. People spotted their double or palm. But they didn't take it so seriously that they went bonkers every time they messed up. They just worked harder and stayed true to themselves.
Thats the most important thing in life, to stay true to yourself. Magic is not what you are, its what you do. It can be a part of your life, but let it be the enjoyable part that you love. Not the mind busting, forum screaming, all controlling part of your life.
So in the end, what are you going to do? A trick, a small part of who you are and why you're on earth? Or will you be real, forgetting all else but who you are and what you want the world to know?
Magic is here for our enjoyment as well as the pleasure of those to whom we perform. Its often a candle burning in a dark room that can be our life. Eventually, though, a final door will open and you can either let the candle continue to burn with no purpose until it finally puts itself out having made its original intent somewhat pointless. Or you can blow the candle out having known it did its task, and it was a job well done.
C=B
Or would you drop the cards, the coins, the magic charade, and tell the world 1 final thing before you passed on? Would magic even matter at this point? Would you want to tell someone you love them and hold them one last time?
You see guys, sometimes we put to much importance in magic. We take a fun art form and try to make it every fabric of our lives. We replace looking into ourselves with looking into the newest DVD. We forget that being who we are on this earth is more important than a trick, yes, even the invisible deck.
So you wonder why I post this huh? Am I making some dramatic point to be a intellectual justification for me leaving or taking a break in magic? No, i'm staying put. Was it to use those big words I used two sentences ago? No, I had to use spell check to even get those out.
Its because of what I see magic doing to people on the board and to its practitioners in general. So many of us take magic as this holy untouchable immovable art form that is being nothing but disgraced. We want to compare ourselves to others so we can say we are better at this "holy art". Thats not what its about.
Think of the greats in magic... Thurston, Vernon, Houdini, ect. Why do we remember them? Because they were just themselves. They did their own thing and are remembered because they didn't take magic as some super-man like amazing art form that they just had to be better than everyone at. They did what they wanted to and on their own time. Answering to no one, and having no one answer to them.
Sure, they messed up, tricks got exposed. People spotted their double or palm. But they didn't take it so seriously that they went bonkers every time they messed up. They just worked harder and stayed true to themselves.
Thats the most important thing in life, to stay true to yourself. Magic is not what you are, its what you do. It can be a part of your life, but let it be the enjoyable part that you love. Not the mind busting, forum screaming, all controlling part of your life.
So in the end, what are you going to do? A trick, a small part of who you are and why you're on earth? Or will you be real, forgetting all else but who you are and what you want the world to know?
Magic is here for our enjoyment as well as the pleasure of those to whom we perform. Its often a candle burning in a dark room that can be our life. Eventually, though, a final door will open and you can either let the candle continue to burn with no purpose until it finally puts itself out having made its original intent somewhat pointless. Or you can blow the candle out having known it did its task, and it was a job well done.
C=B