108

Alas, my sights were set too high, and I didn’t make it into the top 100.

Maybe next year, if I’ve not been driven to a murder-suicide rampage by then.

108 is:

• considered sacred in many Eastern religions and traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and connected yoga and dharma based practices.
• in Tibetan Buddhism it is believed that there are 108 sins
• In Homer‘s Odyssey, the number of suitors coveting Penelope, wife of Odysseus.
• There are 108 outlaws in the Chinese classic Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh.
• The number of surat al-Kawthar in the Qur’an, the smallest one of the Book.
• There are 108 love sonnets in Astrophil and Stella, the first English sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney.

Thanks for the votes, folks.

Keep reading and keep commenting.

AJ

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