On Saturday night, Lauren and I donned our niftiest threads to check out a local magic show.

Lauren is a total cynic when it comes to conjuring.

Buy her a pint of Guinness and ask her for her views on Derren Brown and she’ll launch into a rant about how he’s the shadiest joker in the pack and a glorified con artist with a nice suit.

But even Lauren was impressed by the magic we saw on Saturday (after she’d got over her initial “come on then, amaze me” phase).

I was impressed too.

And it takes some seriously good magic to impress me nowadays.

Ever since I got given a Paul Daniel’s magic kit, bought my first magic book and paid my first visit to Davenports magic shop, I've been hooked on all things magic.  This continued as I signed up for magic lessons and enjoyed magic shows in far-flung places like Vegas, New York and a Radisson Hotel next to an industrial estate just behind Heathrow Airport.

Over this time I've got to know some of magic’s most closely guarded secrets.

But on Saturday night, Andrew Frost’s card magic left me in awe.

There were moments when I was so taken aback and so enchanted, thrilled & fascinated by what I was witnessing that I almost felt like a kid again.  

Some of the tricks sparked a sense of wonder which reminded me why I fell in love with magic in the first place.

Thing is, I love knowing the secrets.

But Saturday night made me realise it’s not the answers which stirs this sense of delight.

It’s the mystery of not having the answers. 

Of course, we don’t always like to play in the dark when it comes to life.  Ambiguity can make us feel exposed and the more we mull over what we don’t know, the worse it can get.

We want answers, a plan and a way to keep things tidy & predictable. 

Only thing is, life doesn’t work this way. 

Life isn’t tidy & predictable, answers rarely exist and the best-laid plans of mice & men often go awry.

But what if instead of trying to micro-manage the living daylights out of life, we could change our relationship with the unknown instead?

In other words:

If the unknown could prompt that same sense of wonder and joy as a really great magic trick, would that make life more or less fulfilling?

Before you try to answer this question, relax.

Have you learnt nothing, my sorcerer’s apprentice?

Moving magically on:

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