What Magic Should Be

Magic should make people happy. A trick should cause wonder and be truly enjoyable to watch as well as to perform. Magic brings undescribable feelings to the hearts of audiences and to magicians. As many of you already know, there is no feeling like glancing up in the middle of a trick to see smiles from everyone in the audience, whether the audience is one close friend or thousands of people filling up an entire theater and watching your every move.

An ideal magic trick is one that will be remembered - when your audience reconstructs the trick in their mind as they tell their friend about the magicial feat that you performed, it should be even more wonderous than the actual trick -- remember that everything you say and do during the course of a trick will go into the spectator's minds to be remembered later. There are subtle things you can say and do that will make the trick stand out even more.

When someone sees you years later after performing a trick, and they happily describe a miracle that still amazes them, that is magic. Seeing a little child's eyes light up as they watch you bring magic into their world is a wonderful feeling. Watching the smiles on the parents' faces of an enchanted child is almost equally as charming.

As you study to learn the best magic tricks you can get your hands on, just remember that the latest sleight-of-hand move that you've mastered isn't cool just because you can do it, but by mastering the mechanics of this slieght -- which if done right will never be seen or remembered by the audience -- you're creating memories to last a lifetime. The better you get, the more you practice your magic tricks, the better memories you are going to instill in people's lives.