text: Well, one has to ask oneself how Douglas Adams arrived at the number 42.  My take, based on a one week model and applicable to the other 51 weeks in the year:\n\n7 days to wake up and face the brave new world and nights to rest your weary head and lose yourself in your imagination\n\n7 people who love you (more if you are lucky)\n\n7 acts of charity you can perform/or be the recipient of \n\n7 people who's life is better because you are in it\n\n7 deadly sins,  because without Pride you cannot have Humility,  \nwithout Avarice/Greed there is no Generosity, and so on and so forth with Envy, Love, Wrath/Anger, Kindness, Lust , Self control \nGluttony, Faith and Temperance, Sloth, Zeal\n\n7 Yahoo Answers you can pull out of nowhere to fill up your meaningless life.