MAGIC!!

One fine afternoon, when you are busy in daily chores, suddenly the sky becomes gloomy and it becomes orangish. Suddenly out of nowhere a big storm comes! You put your full potential and try to escape 'The Storm' but you get trapped, and then the Surreal thing happens; the wicked witch, magical sparkle, the cloudy wind take you to the land of Oz.

One fine morning, you wake up from your bed, go to collect the newspaper and the letters and you get the letter, which is addressed to you, it is nothing but your 'Hogwarts acceptance letter'! That moment onwards, you are not a Muggle anymore, you are a supernatural magical being, in a way, you are a wizard.

One fine day, you are playing hide and seek with your cousins, everyone ditches you, you are unable to find a secret place to hide. At the last moment you see the closet and try to fit yourself into the closet. You have found perfect place for hiding. But that moment the closet feels larger. You take some steps backward. Suddenly you touch a thing like snow-cold, that moment you fall down. You are scared and you have closed your eyes but finally you get the courage to open your eyes. When you open your eyes you see a magical snowy world. You are just awestruck by seeing a magical world behind your closet.

But sad thing is that the storm, the letter or the closet thing never happened, at least in this reality. You are just stuck in a suffocating, chaotic reality. You are nothing but a rat race participant in this materialistic, capitalistic world. Everyday you have to wake up early, brush your teeth then shower and go to work. After coming back from work; dinner, some cliched entertainment and then go back to sleep.....
Then repeat the routine again. The cyclic trapeze swinger goes on. Sometimes you get frustrated and wake up early but you don't leave your bed. You try to do some finger nip(তুড়ি), and you think that the magical thing will happen. Alas! it doesn't. You are still stuck in your routine. Anyhow or at any cost you try to escape this reality. You watch cinema or TV shows and wait for the magical things to happen. The fantasy world, Game of Thrones, Pan's Labyrinth, Hogwarts, Wonderland, Lord of the Ring, Narnia, land of Oz beckon you. But the thing is that you are unable to reach. Those magical dragons, wands, sparkle, lightning , magical creatures all are just your fantasy. You fantasize about them everyday. But daily routine already have tired you. Your escapism never falls into its places.

Someday you want to be a wizard, next day you want to be a vampire,  a very next day you just want to have the dragon. But from the core of your heart, you are not going to get or reach to them. Somehow you have compromised with your fate and faith. But from the incandescent desire of  your heart you still believe on them. That's why after waking up early you still try those finger-nip and expect for the change or the magic.

Have you ever wondered what magic actually is? Is it a stage show or just an illusion? Or just another escape route from the reality? You will never know. But still we fantasize about those sparkling, glittering, lightening, magical elements; in one word about th,e fantasy land. Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's children' make us to believe in the implicit magic among our realistic world.

If you think parallelly, magic is happening all the time around us. The butterfly is coming to sit on a beautiful flower, the sublime mountain, the drug or alcohol induced hallucination, our deep rooted unconscious dreams; all are nothing but magic. Love, friendship, human connection, all are magical; belongs to a fantasy world. The way a baby is born, the way a puppy run towards you, the way your mother worries constantly about you are all magic. Everything is happening around us in some way is surreal and magical. The sparkly, glittery, lightening thing may not be happening; or you may not be a wizard (specifically Harry Potter) but you still have your wand to do the magic. Your smartphone is nothing but you wand; if you think differently, you can somehow do everything by your smartphone. Isn't it magical? Tele-connection to Tele-destruction, anything can happen by you. Science is Magic. It can give you the control to nature. The magical fantasy generators; like novels, Cinemas, TV Shows all the vfx in these, which draws you to fantasize about magic is the result of science. The medicines and the development in medical sector are the magical potion,  which is oblivious to our cliched reality.

Unknowingly the storm has come, the letter has arrived and the closet has become larger; since the day we have come to this world or the day you were born.