Something to think about

Jenny · 12-20-2002, 06:27 AM

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:

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 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 who cannot read at all.

Someone once said:

"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."

DragonKing · 12-20-2002, 07:53 AM

Jenny,
That was inspiring to say the least!!

firehorse · 12-20-2002, 08:04 AM

Thanks for sharing Jenny, inspirational as we have come to expect!

"I used to complain about having no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."

twinkley · 12-20-2002, 02:48 PM

I love this part...

"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."

I always try to take that advice to heart. That and these 2 rules.

Rule 1 - Dont sweat the small stuff
Rule 2 - unless its family or friends, its all small stuff.

twinkley