Kidding

Why would a child insist that magnets are magic? At such a young age we do not understand enough to come to a more logical conclusion and therefore, it must be magic. It must be. I mean, what else would make two things stick to each other so insistently?

Adults would tell their offspring that magic is not real, and therefore it is not a logical conclusion. How does such a profound difference in opinion occur? Are there really tiny particles in a magnet that are so attracted to the particles of the other magnet that they must be together? What causes the attraction?

We continue to educate children to teach them to live in today's world. But would they have to learn so much if our forefathers decided innocence was better? Hmmm I feel an evolution debate arising.

I saw a movie tonight which has sparked these thoughts. The protagonist, or main character as children would put it, is the owner of a toy store. But magical things happen in this toy store. When the movie begins, you almost instantly pass him off as a lunatic. And while that may be the case, it is not the whole case, as he professes strange amounts of knowledge and wisdom as the movie progresses. He has a way of thinking and viewing the world that is rather remarkable. He looks through a child's eyes, has an adult's understanding, and yet chooses the child's viewpoint over the scientific. Much more fun.

I would really like to be able to do that, but the magic has gone. Fairies aren't real anymore, they've told me so many times I believe it.

And Dustin Hoffman plays him beautifully.