What Cinderella Taught ME!

I just finished watching the movie Cinderella (2015) with the lovely Lilly James. The following thought dawned on me when I heard the line “The world is filled with magic.” It’s true!!Real, actual magic fills reality . When Sir Isaac Newton was hit on the head with an apple and discovered the law of gravity he came across magic, when James Clerk Maxwell discovered radio waves; magic, and whoever invented the television, well, magic.   

Also, why does no one call Cinderella Cindy?It’s so much easier and more practical! I digress.

Now some could say and have said that those things are certainly not magical. Why that is just scientific discovery or the laws of the universe which have been researched for hundreds and thousands of years and you call that magic? You are a fool. But those things ARE as magical as when Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage, lizards into coachmen, and a goose into a driver.  

Because both of these sets of things did not necessarily have to be. Radio waves could’ve not existed just as much as they can exist. The invisible law of gravity could be there or it could not. It would certainly make as much sense for the apple to have fallen off the tree and shot into space as it does for it to fall straight down onto Newton’s head. In the very same way, the Fairy Godmother and her wand didn’t have to have the ability to do those things. You can easily imagine a world where Fairy Godmothers do not exist and wands cannot do these things because, well, you live in one. How is turning a pumpkin into a carriage any more amazing than sending images and sounds in an instant across the world? It isn’t.