It might be Monday but just read this and think of
where we sit in the whole scheme of things...and
smile.
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village
of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining
the same, it would look something like the following:
there would be:
quoted 3 lines 57 asians
> > 57 asians
> > 21 europeans
> > 14 from the western hemisphere, both north and
south
quoted 10 lines 8 africans
> > 8 africans
> > 52 would be female
> > 48 would be male
> > 70 would be non-white
> > 30 would be white
> > 70 would be non-christian
> > 30 would be christian
> > 89 would be heterosexual
> > 11 would be homosexual
> > 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's
wealth and all 6 be
quoted 8 lines from the United States.
> > from the United States.
> > 80 would live in substandard housing
> > 70 would be unable to read
> > 50 would suffer from malnutrition
> > 1 would be near death
> > 1 would be near birth
> > 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
> > 1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed
perspective, the need
for acceptance, understanding and education becomes
glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than
illness...you are more
blessed than the million who will not survive this
week. If you have never experienced the danger of
battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of
torture, or the pangs of starvation you are ahead of
500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of
harassment, arrest,
torture, or death...you are more blessed than three
billion people in the
world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your
back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are
richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and
spare change in a dish
someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's
wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married ...
you are very rare.
If you can read this message, you just received a
double blessing in that
someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are
more blessed than over two billion people in the world
that cannot read at all.
Someone once said: what goes around comes around.
quoted 5 lines Work like you don't need the money.
> > Work like you don't need the money.
> > Love like you've never been hurt.
> > Dance like nobody's watching.
> > Sing like nobody's listening.
> > Live like it's heaven on earth.
It's national friendship week. Send this to everyone
you consider a friend.
Pass this on, and brighten someone's day. Nothing will
happen if you do
not decide to pass it along. The only thing that will
happen, if you do pass it on, is that someone might
smile because of you.
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