We count to 100 with children.

We ring-in the new millennium.

We celebrate a 40th birthday.

We watch the odometer turn from 99999.9 to 100000.0.

We announce our first million dollars in orders.

Markers in time. Round numbers. We stop to say, “Look how far we’ve come!”

But it’s not really a stop; it’s a pause. A recognition. A breath. A joyous sound. And then, with determination, we resume.

After all, we weren’t built to stop. We were built to keep going, and we will do just that. Head held high with pride, or head dipped low with grit… we will keep going.