42? True.

In “Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, a supercomputer called Deep Thought gets asked to find the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

After many years of processing its own vast data banks, all the bigwigs and scientists gather round Deep Thought as it prepares to reveal the truth.

Which, it turns out, is - “42”. LOL.

Truth is undoubtedly a thing. But it’s hard to come by and it can be a slippery eel even when we do manage to get our hands on some. I’m trying to remember that truth when ever I push a song, or a blog, or anything remotely creative out into the world.

It takes a certain amount of confidence to create anything. And to let other people see it. Young children have oodles of that confidence as they plunge recklessly into the world trying to find out stuff. What works. What doesn’t. They don’t question the value of what they do, in the way that we as adults do. They just get on and do it.

Life and its experiences bring a certain amount of humility regarding our endeavours of course. Our creations fail. Most of them do. And sadly, many of us lose our creative instinct because of that. The failures and disappointments, fed by unrealistic expectations, cause us to give up.

But we can get up again. Our creativity can be reignited. It can be nurtured. And then, like little children, we can carry on with the experimenting. We learn once more to simply enjoy the journey - to find out what is true.