Unabridged You

42: Multiple Answers and Even More Questions

Julie Hest Season 3 Episode 6

What does it mean to look for the answer?

When I turned 42, I couldn’t help but wonder if this was the year it would all click — the age where everything made sense. After all, 42 is famously “the answer to life, the universe, and everything” in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

But as I reflect back, I found something very different. Not one neat answer, but many small lessons, questions, and surprises.

In this solo episode, I share 

  • the five lessons I took (learned, re-learned or had emphasised while being 42 
  • why the search for the answer might be too rigid — and what happens when we let our answers evolve, just as we do

Instead of one destination, life keeps offering us shifting questions and ongoing becoming. Maybe that’s the real answer after all.

I’d love to hear from you: was there an age, season, or moment that felt like it might hold the answer? Looking back, what did it teach you? Share your reflections at unabridgedyou@gmail.com 

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