Magic!!!

Much of my conversations with Naqiyah revovle around and evolve from stories. We at times discuss intricacies of why Popla ( a japanese kid who's always scared of tiniest things) finally joins Naqiyah/Tinkerbell Nani on adventures and how Naqiyah manages to send Storm Dragon ( an increadibly powerful being who by accident lands up in our space time from past) back to time and saves the world as we know it!

Now considering that all adventures have multitude of characters all with amazing fantastic abilities, magic and power, it is finally Naqiyah who's crowned Princess of the Jungle. Princess of a Jungle being ultimate crown that gives her domain and control over all things alive and wild.

Why does this happen.. why a human , a child at that, like Naqiyah is more powerful then the magical fairies, elves, dragons and dwarfs ?

Because being a human she has the most powerful magic of all! "Difficult things become Easy" Magic. Basically she possess an ability to try and solve difficult problems , tasks and issues by abilities and answers which she does not already have. She can try and try and try until she can solve the problem. Eventually the most difficult problems will become EASY to solve because she'll try, practise and be patient. All other creatures dont have this magic. They shall either be able to do something or not! Naqiyah intrinsically being non-magical uses the most powerful magic of all to solve any and all problems.. magic of work, patience and trying something until it becomes easy to accomplish!!

Basically ofcourse this Magic is really there for all humans to use. Only some of us realise this. And many of us realise it later then we ought to. I realised this late. I would think i'm good at things and try to do things in first shot. Be happy with whatever good/bad/ugly result i got, compare myself with fellow beings who similarly approched the task as a beginner and be done with it! It is only shortly I've realised that no matter whether I can do something ok, or well, or not so well.. important is only if i've done it a few times and after having given it a through go, can I really sit back and look at my efforts and judge them. Initial efforts without trying and without applying the "MAGIC" have no value. They shall pale in comparision to the final output!!

Now I'm teaching Naqiyah training her similarly. For example, if she makes a drawing .. she'll excitedly want to show me. Although i'd appreciate it, i do remind her that I would be even more happy when she has tried this sort of drawing a few times and showed me result of her efforts. Particularly satisfying is seeing her eyes shine when she put in an hour trying to play a piece of melody and finally gets it, or joy in her voice after we try many attempts at playing around with " I love u, u love me, we are a happy family"- making a parody of it, she comes up with a version "I love u, u love me, we are a magic family, we can try everything , we can do everything, and practice shall make things easy" which satisfies both of us. Ofcourse her version goes on quite a bit longer and once she's with me i'll probably note it down. It also changes quite a bit at each recital since she sings impromptue.

I think we humans really forget what we have. Ask any of us to learn a new language - we'll say its difficult to do..! but really it is not so. A baby learns to speak few words and understand from very very young age.. by 2 ~ 2and half Asma talks and makes herself understood quite well. She's already learnt gujarati. We can too but with half as much effort learn to learn a new language. We forget that we can and imagine that we were better at doing it when we are kids. I beg to differ, and think it is not so, it is only that as a kid we put in a lot of effort. Now we can't find time for even a small part of that effort and hence we fail, but given even a part of similar effort, we'd accomplish much more now. Also other things.. like balancing and walking.. We learn when we're so young.. But does anyone notice how much effort a baby takes to do this.. How much practice and how much time.. Also for each word to learn? Repitations, and practices? Immersive environment? How about for me or you to learn ice skating (lets say) or Juggling etc.. many a times we'd think its too difficult and not try. We forget what we have, and give up on ultimate magic we possess. I believe we humans can do more .. much more than we give ourselves credit for.. All it needs is use of our intrinsic magic !