'GIFTS' and 'MAGIC'
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    A gift is something given for the asking of no return. A gift can be anything the receiver/perceiver feels is given to them. Thus gifts fall into as many categories as a person feels that given to them, is a gift.
     Magic is a quality which is felt by the perceiver, therefore it may be magic to one person and not another. Therefore, also, it is subjective. It is amorphous. That is, it has no particular form. To be magic, something has to be not understood and to remain magic, it, in my view, cannot be questioned.
    Some gifts are magic. These are not tangible gifts in the sense of a 'present' (for a birthday, for example). The gifts I am talking about are mainly those that are given to us a human beings in the shape of what we call 'talents'. They become tangible, not in themselves, but in the realisation of them and turning them (honing them) into skills and the using of these skills to produce original works, whatever they may be, but, of course, preferably positive.
    Both the words 'gift' and 'magic' have been afforded definitions which become dubious.  Hence notions of gifts as tangible 'presents', 'white magic' and 'black magic' and so forth. These are not what I mean. I am looking at the simplistic view, the notion of gifts and magic as something we are given that we may not or do not understand. We don't have to understand them, as I say, the notion of them is destroyed by definition.
    Our personal Gifts are Magic. They defy our so-called 'logic'. They are therefore, in my view, not open to questioning.
    That some people are capable of creating the modern technologies of this world (albeit an evolution), is magic, pure and simple. Those who possess these gifts often require no more than  a pleasant 'Thank You.' Others, rely on their negative outlook of the earth in general and want to make something of the fact.
    Any gift that someone has, especially creative ones, is magic. 'How did I do that?', one asks one's self. If you try to question it, the magic is lost. Naming something lends itself to making something static. If it's static, it's not alive. Naming maybe useful but it does not explain anything. Words are static symbols of communication. They do not explain. The more words used, the less explaining. 'I am going to smile,' does not explain anything. Producing a smile, does. The recipient/s 'feel' you inner self and you are communicating your inner self. They may not understand your smile but they feel it, react to it and that is magic.



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