What is Your One-Hundred?

Today is my 100th day of blogging!  It’s been 100 days since my eldest little birdie took off from the nest to start his own adult life.  This is post number 100.  Thank you so much for being there with me, as I have navigated my confusion and grief and curiosity about my changing role in this middle-age stage of life.  Thank you for helping me to establish this blog and supporting my voice and validating what I have to say.  I have heard many reports that this blog is “relatable.”  I appreciate that.  I’m glad that I am not alone in my observations.  I hope that you will stay with me for 100 more blog posts because I’m just at the starting block of this Second Half of Adulting.

Why is 100 such a benchmark number?  I remember when my kids were in kindergarten, they couldn’t wait for the 100th day of school.  On that day, they brought in their magnificent 100 penny posters, designed any way that they liked with the pennies glued into all sorts of designs.  They dressed like little old grannies and grandpas with baby powder in their hair and they wore scratchy cardigan sweaters.  The 100th day of school was a very special day for them.

I looked up the significance of the number 100.  This is what one site said:

The numerology number 100 represents energy that’s self-determined, independent, and has infinite potential.

100 can be seen as a practically unlimited number 1.

The urban dictionary said this:

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a one-hundred means what is your motto for life. you are 100% you and you live by this.
“What is your one-hundred?”

 

So 100 seems to refer to “your best” – giving 100 percent to what you do.  Some websites referred to a century, saying that what happens in 100 years is the most significant breakdown of time and history for human beings.

 

I looked up advice from centenarians (people who have lived for 100 years) for this post.  A lot of the advice contradicted other centenarians advice, such as drink three whiskeys every day to don’t ever drink alcohol.  The advice that did seem pretty consistent from all of them was:  don’t worry, be loving and lovable, be interested and interesting, and just do your thing.  In other words, they were saying, You Be You.  Just be and enjoy it along the way.  I think it was best summed up this way by one centenarian:

 

“Take one day at a time, and go along with the tide.”

2 thoughts on “What is Your One-Hundred?”

  1. Thank you, and congrats on writing such good, insightful, and thought provoking posts! Something tells me you put 100% into to everything you do. Way to go! Keep on being you!

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