Let’s start with when we’re young.  Really young.  As young as we can remember.  I wholeheartedly believed in magic when I was a kid.  I’ll bet you did too.  You might have held onto it as an adult, but you probably didn’t, or at least, it faded and changed.  This “loss of magic” as childhood morphs into adulthood is such a cliché that it is, in fact, a theme in many children’s stories themselves.