I got an email recently that made me think... well not really recent but i just don't check my emails very often.. probably like once in 3 months =P // anyways here's how it goes...
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Have
we all wondered how lucky we are ? Can we remember the times we
complained to our friends, teachers, parents or just anyone in the room
about what an unfortunate situation you are in or how you would just
love to be someone else?
Well friends, sometimes we may be luckier than we will ever know.
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 would be 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
(ONE)1 would be near death;
(ONE)1 would be near birth;(ONE)
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education;(ONE)
1 (yes, only 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.And, therefore . . .
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 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 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 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 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 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 read this message, you are
more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read
at all.
As you read this and are reminded how life is in the rest of the
world, remember just how blessed you really are!
Posted at 01:47 pm by Gibbs
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