The Young Boy And The Magician...

A young boy asked his father, how did the magician at the fair make money appear out of thin air? The father responded that the magician at the fair is a friend of your cousin. What don't you go and asked him?

The boy went and asked his cousin who said that indeed he knew the magician and he could take him to see the local magician next Saturday.

Next Saturday, as promised, they went to see the local magician who said that he had promised his teacher never to reveal the secret. Furthermore, he said, we live in a small town, if I reveal my magic secrets, nobody would come to see me perform anymore and I'd lose my livelihood.

The boy said to himself, there is a secret to make money from nothing, I have seen the local magician do it. I have to learn the secret. One day, while watching TV, he saw another magician performed the very same trick of making money appear in his hat, which was previously empty. There was a contact number to get tickets to see the next live appearance, which will be held next month in another town.

The young boy thought, maybe if I can go to the live show, out of town next month I can learn the secret of making money and I can get all the money I want, at will.

In order to get enough money to buy a ticket to the upcoming magic show, the boy was doing all kind of errands to gather the amount of money. He was mowing lawns, carrying groceries to and from grocery stores, delivering newspaper, etc.

At the end of the month, he had enough money to buy his ticket to the magic show and some money left to take the bus back and forth to the show. Once at the show, he was very pleased to watch a master magician performing live before his very eyes and thought that perhaps he could find a way to approach the magician at the end of the show and ask him how he makes money appears out of thin air.

At the end of the show, not only can he not get close enough to the magician, he was rudely pushed aside by the magician's agent who said, do you think you can learn tricks like that for a lousy thirty dollar ticket? The young boy was thinking to himself how fast the money seems to leave his hand after all the hard work he put in to earn it.

As he was leaving to catch his bus back home, quite depressed and sad, he was approached by a gentleman who seemed to have heard his conversation with the magician's agent. Come here my boy and watch this! As the boy stood there and listened with all ears. The gentleman spoke about money and the science behind making money, the philosophy of life, the history of man, the history of the world and more. It was as if a large book came open in front of the boy and he could see clearly the magic that had escaped him all this time.

Front this point on, he no longer wanted the secret to making money but the secret of life, the secret of love between all people and the secret of peace on earth. That is the real magic.

Now get a coin out of your pocket and do this!