>>12876801It is real. You just have to be honest as possible with what yourself as it comes to perceiving reality, and to shape your definition of magic accordingly.
You can't walk on water, but you can talk nearly instaneously to people across the planet. You can't levitate or fly, but you can build machinery that can. You can't will plants to grow instantenously, but you can learn what they need to grow and supply those needs.
People tend to think "magic isn't real because this specific sort of magic in fantasy stories is not real" when all sorts of magic is occuring in their life at all times. Magic is limited and bounded, but it is still existent in its own way, even if we interpret it as mundane.