42 years is an important historical moment in the life of every individual. An age to be celebrated, to be honored, to be remembered. It is not an age like the others. While it is true that every age is different and carries with it experiences, awareness and stories that belong only to that age, 42 years represent a real door.
Biological studies tell us that every 7 years all our cells are completely renewed and the study of biography according to anthroposophy speaks to the seven-year development, the seven-year stages within which the individual makes special experiences to prepare for the next stage.
Following these interesting approaches we realize that age 42 is nothing more than the beginning of our seven seven years, considered the period of full human maturity.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE 42 YEARS OLD?
At this age, everything that has been learned in the previous seven years can bear fruit. Often men start building a house, women find the path of self-fulfillment. After so much research, study, involvement, it is time to reap everything that has been sown and to stop and enjoy the good harvest that is to come. At this age, radical changes can occur, both affective and professional. Crises can arise, transfers can occur, special internal concerns. What begins to change markedly is the body. Unless specific changes are noticed before the age of 40, when we reach the age of 42, muscle mass, skin, and even hair characteristics change. There is a real transformation. External and internal to man.
AGE OF DECISION MAKING
We can call 42 years old the age of decision. Who do we want to be? What do we want to do? These are the questions that await an answer. We can not go beyond these years to act for who we are. Of course, even after this age we can make changes, ask ourselves new questions, reconsider dreams and desires. But 42 years old is the ideal time to start with the right foot, to finally get an assessment of the situation, to gather all the forces and direct them towards that spiritual call, which draws us to itself in a predominant way. This threshold is very similar to the threshold of adolescence. In this period of life, we face the decisions that need to be made, we make new friendships, dormant interests awaken, we feel like then a spirit of rebellion that touches within us, we feel confusion, insecurity, instability. It is as if new eyes were opening to us: this time more aware, more mature. The physical ailments of the past come back, the fear that is believed to have been overcome or our body can bring about completely new symptoms.
Everything is in motion. Everything talks to us. 42 years also represent a turning point. We are more or less in the middle of our lives. We find ourselves doing an analysis of what we have tried, dealing with our desires fulfilled and those that have yet to be realized. It's still time to create. Indeed, this is the right time to be guided by instinct, fantasy, imagination. We can now wisely follow these inner teachers of ours, not as in adolescence, when we did not yet have the reins of our inner life. The vibrations of our adolescence are now returning and we can channel them to make our dreams and plans come true. At the age of 42 we know each other quite well and can vividly perceive our mission on this earth. And follow it! Everything that has happened before has been a preparation for the moment. All the difficulties, the internal and external changes towards us, the events, all the crises, joys and dramas are trained that can now shed light on the darkness felt for so long. Now is the time to choose the light, to decide, to take risks.
42 YEARS OLD, THE DOOR OF REALIZATION
Before the age of 42 we usually perceive an inner turbulence, we look for something we do not know how to define, we are drawn to the paths of personal growth to understand ourselves better, we always feel inadequate. These years are the prelude to this door. What we decide to do at this age is the light that will illuminate the rest of life. Galileo Galilei saw the stars for the first time at the age of 42. Rosa Parks at the age of 41 refused to allow her seat on the bus to a white person, starting the civil rights movement for African-Americans. But even many ordinary people around us, if we think about it, have participated in significant changes at this age. It is a wave that comes at this period of our lives, a wave to be caught and not to be lost.
