The Secret Of Magic

by

Peter The Adequate

When I was a little boy, I wanted to do magic very badly… and do you know what? I did magic very badly. The reason I did magic so badly was that I thought magic was all about me, all about showing everyone how wonderful I was and how stupid they were for not figuring it out. It wasn’t till years later that I realized that no one cared how wonderful I was and quite frankly, no one liked to be told they were stupid. It took me a little longer to discover that if I really wanted people to watch me, I had to think about them and not myself. As soon as I learned that, a strange thing happened. My friends started saying: “Can you show us another magic trick? My parents started saying: “Have you met our son the magician?” People started paying me money to do what I enjoyed most. I was getting paid to have fun. That’s when I learned the biggest secret of magic and for that matter, the biggest secret of life. It’s simply this:
“Remember, it’s not always about you.
As a matter of fact, it’s NEVER about you”.
Learn this, and your world will be a very special place.
You see, each of us has been given a gift or gifts. We call them talents. When you discover what your talents are, your world suddenly is filled with color. But when you learn to use those gifts to make other people’s lives better, when you use them to make the world a better place…
Then You Have Real Magic.