Believe in Magic

Have any of you played Fable 2 yet? It's an awesome game, but aside from that it has a very interesting line that is said very early in the game. It is when Theresa (the almost grandmother-figure) solemnly says, "It is a grim day indeed, when even children are too world-weary to believe in magic," when the main character's sister says that magic isn't real. Even though, in Fable 2, magic is actually real this could be applied to the real world.


I think to everyone, magic isn't an actual thing that we can use. Or... at least we don't think that now that we're older. However, when we were younger magic was something that we could dream on, something that we could believe in, and something that could make the impossible possible and the unthinkable attainable. I remember that when I was younger, I actually believed in magic, I remembered my friends believing in Santa Clause, I remember even some of my friends believing in the easter bunny. Even though I think we probably realized that there was really no possible way for any of this to happen, we still believed. In a sense magic, when we were younger, was the embodiment of the hope that we had, and if this belief in magic by children leaves this world, the hope that comes with it will die as well. It is true. it would be a grim day indeed.