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
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the
Western Hemisphere,
both north and south
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 would be 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, even in the
United States and
Canada.
If you hold up your head with a smile on
your face and are truly thankful..... you
are blessed because the majority can, but
most do
not.
If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or
even touch them on the shoulder... you are
blessed because you can offer healing touch.
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.
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.
courtesy: Dr.
Robert D. Crane
