It took me a year to finally see the "magic" everyone kept referring to by saying "wait for the magic to happen." Little did I know, the magic was actually that I have contented sobriety. I thought I had would have to live the rest of my life white knuckling it and feeling left out that I could no longer drink. At that year mark, any desire to ever drink again just disappeared. Poof. Gone. I have no desire to ever drink again. That is what the magic is to me.