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Why? Why? Why? It's 42 of course!

This article is the fifth in the writing prompt series by @JonicaBradley and the theme for this one is **Writing Prompt #5: Questions** Please read her wonderful article here if you haven't done so already. https://read.cash/@JonicaBradley/writing-prompt-5-questions-c4076047 If you haven't joined it, I urge you to do so, it has been really great reading so many different articles with the same prompts. So questions is our prompt, now that could well be a long list in my humble opinion, but I will do a twist to this prompt. Right then, let's go on a wee journey. Are you ready readers? Then let me get my cup of coffee and I shall begin. **My initial thoughts** The initial thoughts running through my wee pea brain are two fold. Firstly, why did I write and publish writing prompt #5 when I have not published writing prompt #4? Here we go questioning myself already, the answer though is because I can. My mother used to say Edward, you **CAN** do anything if you put your mind to it. Secondly, I think that the older I have become the less I question things in general. **Do you remember as a child you asked a gazillion questions?** **Take me, for example:** *Mother: Go tidy your room Edward* *Me: Why?* *Mother: Because I said so* *Me: Why?* *Mother: Wait until your father gets home* *Me : Why?* *Mother: He will give you six of the best* *Me: I am going (stamps feet in a huff and vanishes)*

**Or on the holiday car trips to visit my grandparents:** Me: Are we there yet? Father: No Me: Are we there yet? Father: No Me: I need a wee wee! Father: Nearly there Me: Are we there yet? Father and Mother: Almost there Me: I need a jobbie! Mother: Watch your language Me: Why? I could go on and on and I am sure you are now recalling childhood questions that you asked! So a huge part of our learning and growing is by questioning. I have never been a fan of the **What If**. The event has passed, so why dwell on it? I am sure most of us have done some things in life which upon reflection we might have done them differently given a second chance. But this is called life, mistakes are only mistakes if we don't learn from them. I have been fortunate enough to have done many things in my life and overall I doubt I would change much of what I have done or seen. Now I am rambling, time to have a sip of coffee. So enough of the veering off on a tangent and back to the question in hand (get it question on questions 😂) Let me give you a round of applause for getting this far, writing here is fun, and it is awesome getting feedback from my wonderful readers. Do you remember the title of this article? Hmmm probably not! No problem here it is again : **Why? Why? Why? It's 42 of course!** **Have you made a connection yet with 42? Yes, No, maybe?** One day Arthur Dent discovered that Earth is actually a giant supercomputer, created by another supercomputer called **Deep Thought**. You can see that I have given this writing prompt some Deep Thought 😁 Now then, Deep Thought was built by its creators to give the answer to the **"Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"**. After eons and eons of calculations the answer was found! The answer to the **"Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"** is **42.**

**That is awesome, but what is the question?** Deep Thought was then instructed to design the Earth supercomputer to determine what the Question actually is. However Earth was destroyed by the Vogons just before Deep Thought had finished its calculations. So we don't actually know the question, but we do know the answer is 42. Of course, this is all from **The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams written in 1979.** It does get you thinking though. I mean how often do you actually have something or a solution floating around your head and you don't know why! **Is 42 really the answer? Here are some bits of proof!** **42** is the number of galactic years that the Sun-Earth system will survive before it’s destroyed. Rainbows always emerge offset at an angle of **42°** relative to the light source that creates them. The world’s first printed book (The Gutenberg Bible) has **42** lines per page. In Egyptian mythology, there are **42** questions asked of persons making their journey through Death. But surely the biggest proof of all .....

**On page 42 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry discovers he is a wizard.** **I rest my case!** Whilst this might appear to be a flippant article in response to the writing prompt Questions, I believe we all need to smile every so often. I do not wish to belittle anyone who has writing deep soul searching articles. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. **If you would like to participate in these for fun prompts then:** Write about **Questions** Write 100% original content Write at least 600 words Tag me @TengoLoTodo and the creator @JonicaBradley Have fun Thank you for reading. **My previous Writing Prompt Articles:** #4 Not published yet .... see above for details. #3 Similarities https://read.cash/@TengoLoTodo/you-are-a-chemist-and-you-dont-even-know-it-4e3423ff #2 Motivation https://read.cash/@TengoLoTodo/free-food-whats-not-to-like-aa6a33c0 #1 Freedom https://read.cash/@TengoLoTodo/freedom-to-a-scotsman-what-does-that-really-mean-i-wonder-f87b1ed8 Copyright @TengoLoTodo 2021 and yes All Rights Reserved. All images and words are from the author unless source mentioned. Haste ye back.

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