Monotone convergence theorem - what does non-decreasing exactly mean?

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I understand that if a sequence is bounded by supremum and is strictly increasing it will converge. It is intuitive because the sequence is strictly increasing.

I do not really understand the weaker version where we say that any non-decreasing sequence bounded by supremum will converge. Suppose, I know that the sequence is always less than a value $\gamma$, so it is bounded. But if the sequence stops increasing at some point it will never get arbitrarily close to $\gamma$. Suppose the following situation:

$$S=\{1,2,3,4,5,6,...,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10\}$$.

Suppose, I know that all elements of the sequence are less than 100. But the sequence gets stuck at some point because it is non-decreasing.