Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 40 – All About 40

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 40 – All About 40

Welcome to Week 40!

Certain numbers arouse curiosity. I have always wondered about the special significance of the number 40, across different cultures and geographies.

1. Why 40 days of mourning in Islam?
2. Why 40 days of fasting and prayer in Lent?
3. Why 40 winks of sleep?
4. Why 40 minutes of walking?
5. Why 40 days of rest after childbirth in India?
6. Why the fortieth birthday as a celebration of midlife?
7. Why the depression at turning 40?

Maybe, it takes that much time for a chance to get entrenched in the system and become effective.

Write anything – poem, prose, rant, memory, anecdote, reflection, wild thoughts – which includes the number 40.

Look forward to my weekly peep into your brilliant minds…

FORTY: You are Naughty

1. Why the depression at turning 40?

Number 40 might have significance in different cultures and geographies, mythologies…