Unnoticed Magic

I often find myself staring in awe at magicians whenever they perform. Some claim that their “magic” is real; while others simply say they’re only tricks that can distract people from what is really happening. Real “magic” or not, most of us can’t deny that we’re still amazed and mystified by unexplainable things such as these.

Magicians know how to perform their “magic” very well because someone taught them how. They know what move to make or what to hide because they might’ve learned it from a magic handbook. They need to use materials which often have hidden compartments to trick people into believing their “magic”.

We pay expensive prices to watch these so-called magic shows of the famous and experienced magicians; when we don’t notice that somewhere in our backyards, just behind those bushes...lies real magic.

Ever noticed how caterpillars turn into butterflies? They sleep for days inside their cocoons then after a few days...voila! The little beast turns into an amazing beauty. Nobody tells the caterpillar when or where to spin a cocoon. Nobody teaches it how to make one, either. The caterpillar itself is a magic being.

Spiders, too, are part of natural magic. Nobody teaches it how to spin a web. But yet it knows how to build an intricate piece of art. “Well, who taught a spider? A young spider knows how to spin a web without any instructions from anybody. Don’t you regard that as a miracle?” says Dr. Dorian in Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. Don’t you agree?