Inside Magic

?Hello, I?m Tim, and I have a problem.?

I waited for the obligatory response.

It came.

?Hi, Tim!? the crowd was responsive and full.

This was my first time before the Magic Anonymous. I?d heard about it, sure, we all have. We never thought we needed it though. We could stop at any time. Or so we thought. Sure, we could drive right by a magic shop ? if we wanted to. We could not buy something we?ll never use at a magic convention ? but there are things we need.

?I?m a magicholic,? I admitted. If it wasn?t for the microphone in front of my sweating face, I doubt the crowd would have heard it but they did. I knew this was the right thing to do.

There was silence. They knew that I had the same problem as them ? why else would I be there? Sure, there were the multi-addicted folks in the crowd: the magic/juggling/clowning/ventriloquist folks but they all shared my problem; our problem.

I started my tale of woe. There were nods from some of the members. They?d been where I was. They?d lived the hell that I?d lived: buying fanning cards even though they?d never done a fan act ever; purchasing the blueprints and plans for tricks they?d never build. And of course, the tell-tale sign of Magic Addiction: buying thousands of decks of cards (both trick and normal) to the point where they could no longer tell which decks were gimmicked and which were normal.

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