Magic Tricks

Anyone who is a good storyteller could make a miracle out of this effect. I am going to use it for my presentation about Hope and Hope theory. Think about it in this way, l grew up on the boardwalk. I ran the rides. I spun the wheels, I put people’s pictures on T-shirts. I saw thousands of people spend millions of dollars to win tokens. They saved them up all summer long in hopes of getting that big prize off the wall in the arcade. Studies have shown that even today if you walk up to a stranger and offer them either a quarter or an old arcade token, 90% of them will take the arcade token. When asked why they said they remembered playing the arcade games as a child and saving them up in hopes of winning a big prize. We all know what a quarter is worth. But an arcade token, that could be worth a whole lot more. It could be the final token you need to get that big boom box radio off the wall circa 1985. You can argue that you will spend more money playing the games than you would if you had just bought the radio. I would argue, where’ the fun in that. In hope there is magic and there is certainly magic in hope I have Parkinson’s disease. It’s an incurable degenerative condition. If you ask anyone in the medical profession, they will tell you I’m only going to get worse. Yet every day I get up with a positive attitude, I take part in clinical studies. I read research articles. Each one of these activities is like another token that I am saving up for a cure. It’s hope.. I’m going to place this arcade token a symbol of hope in your hand along with an ordinary quarter…