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"Reality
is always magic"
Jean Renoir
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Yes,
there is still magic in the world, if you choose to believe
in it. Daily living has a magic and a poetry, easily forgotten
in the workaday life. In the rush from here to there, in the
frenetic pace life passes by, it is not very hard to forget
to stop for few minutes, just simply to look around, just simply
to think. There are those in the world who have forgotten that
magic exists; they attempt to make everyone else disbelieve
with a bitter cynicism and a cutting sarcasm. The comments may
be humorous, but at the end of the day, they stop others from
attempting to believe, for fear of the reprisal. We are the
resistance. (A stolen kiss is of course magic in and of itself).
It just takes a certain casual disregard and a certain casual
reverence of everything, at the same time. Believing that magic
still exists can not necessarily be taught; it is the type of
thing that needs to be felt, in the heart and in the soul. The
chance to believe presents itself throughout both the day and
the night; you just have to choose to recognize it. Magic is
the way the sunlight dances between the leaves of a tree. Magic
is how a girl can transform herself into a tiger at the thought,
for the sheer thrill of it. (Those sort of things can happen).
It is looking out on the world from eyes that view only possibilities.
| Matthew
Patrick, September 1998 |
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