A 100red

It's not just, by chance. There is something about this number that keeps us intrigued..

" Give it your 100%"…………"100 runs"………. "100 crore"

Now what intrigued me weren't these figures. These numbers were what you call, confirmatory tests. On my way back from  office I was listening to an old Hindi song .

"paani re paani tera rang kaisa,

Sau saal jeene ki ummeedon jaisa"

Stop.

The pause is to appreciate the poet.

Now if you look back at the observation, it is so obvious. Hundred is unlike any other number. It still surpasses most numbers for our definitions of superlatives. Gen Y has come up with 110% and other lingos. But 100%, it still has a special place in our psyche, defined so well by the song.

In Olympics the fastest man is on earth is decided by the 100m sprint. Our unit of time for earth's age is a century-100years. In cricket the 3 figure mark is overtly celebrated. There are adjectives, double, triple--century.

If we look around there might be more instances to prove this observation. It might as well turn out that 100 is as integral to our life as π itself.