Numbers and humans

Harsha Bhogle comments in The Indian Express on the nineties made by Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid yesterday:

These nineties often draw unreasonable comments for it is what has been achieved rather than what has been missed that is often of the essence. Centuries are happy landmarks, they are indicators of good batsmanship but we worship them too much for they can sometimes become an exercise in self-indulgence.

Indeed. And yet, the difference between 102 and 100 will always be far less than that between 100 and 98. They're only numbers, but we're only human.