A Little Perspective

[Self Discoverer]

Hello everyone

 

Many of us have problems which is the reason that a lot of us are here. It sometimes helps to put perspective on things. The following may well help:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

[faeriechyld]

Thank you for sharing this, it was beautiful to read and even more amazing to learn from. Sometimes I think we all need a little reminder of what the world is like outside of our own lives. Thank you again!