I just read this inspiring post on the T11 forums about Micheal Matthews by Tom Isaacson. It depicts the story of a magician as he lives day by day with cancer. He continually does his magic despite his condition, a mark of a true magician.
Here’s an excerpt of Tom’s post on T11:
“Toward the beginning of the summer he started to disappear from the radar. He was busy with projects from what I knew- but ever slow slowly he was out of contact. It wasn’t until the end of September that I found out what happened. Less than a year after he had been released, the cancer came back. And this time it was worse. He was hospitalized again, had a list of ungodly amount of medical procedures performed to keep him alive.He called me up to meet for sushi to tell me the story. He’s not the kind of person to seek sympathy or petty feelings for the stuff he was going through- he didn’t want to bother the world with his disease. He didn’t want his problem to bring other people down. While that’s a remarkably humble trait to find in someone who has undergone such an ordeal, I knew part of it was that he didn’t want to be seen in his weakest state.
But sometimes its in our weakest that we find strength and others can find it too.”
Here’s a link of a video clip from Michael Matthews on Vimeo: Click HERE
Let this be an eye opener to all the people in the world who loves watching magic. On stage, magicians may seem like the most gifted people on earth because of their talents and the feats they do for the sheer entertainment of those watching, but the moment we get off the performing stage, we’re just normal people living with the daily struggles of life.