For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. That's what I believe. The truth of life is that every year we get a little farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, and some of them not so good. Things happen to us.
Loved ones die.
People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does it's best to take that memory of magic away from us. It just happens.