…are mind-blowing!

It’s truly fascinating to immerse yourself into a whole new world of mystique, intrigue and magic (literally and figuratively). You learn how amazing your hands can get as you shift your fingers in ways and angles that you have never tried before and as you get familiar with the body of the cards. You start seeing things in novel ways as your mind undergoes a paradigm shift. Perhaps a little more self-consciousness is injected into you as you evaluate your every trick multiple times before you are confident enough to perform it “under the heat”, as magicians may call it.

If I may use an analogy, it would be as if discovering for the first time that the rainbow isn’t really made up of seven colours, but rather seven bands of colours, which from afar can never be distinguished by the naked eye. Nuances are often lost in displacement, and learning magic helps to regain this perspective, one might say. 

Essentially, the mind and body is so much greater than the average individual may comprehend. After all, heavy conditioning in our youth towards education-oriented behaviours have led us to adopt certain styles of thinking, and hence particular ways of using our brain. In actuality, these ways utilise a mere fraction of our maximum mental capacity - well, the proliferation of examinations and ever-increasing spotlight on results have since resulted in premature streamlining and specialisation of the mind.

Of course, learning magic is not the only way to explore about our mind and body in greater depth. Sports and the arts are also excellent platforms. In fact, a hasty generalisation might be to say that the learning of unorthodox disciplines (by which “orthodox” would mean the usual combinations of science, mathematics and language) will unlock new possibilities in ourselves!

I’m not too sure how much of these speculations are actually grounded in facts and studies, but a cursory view of life in general might review the truth in them. In any case, it’s time for my unearthly hour sleep (it’s 3am!!!) before I awake to another week of work. How dreary… but life goes on. 

C’mon, the glass is half-full. We have to keep that in mind, always.

P.S. I ALMOST FORGOT. I am currently practising this rather interesting feat of magic and I will be needing help from a few friends! So don’t be surprise if I enlist your help this coming week! And don’t worry, it’s going to be great fun :D

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