To all my
friends and loved ones
Love from me
Useful Perspective
If
the world were a Village of 100 People
If we could shrink the earth’s
population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the
exsting human ratios remaining the same, it would look something
like the following:
There
would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
10 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-while
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 pup this
morning with more health than illness……you are more blessed than
the illion 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 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 dish someplace…you are among the top 8% of the world’s
wealth.
If your parents are still alive and still married…you are
very rare, even in the United Stated and
Canada.
Someone once said: What goes around comes
around.
So…
Work live 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.