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I received this from a friend and it is very thoughtful. Please send it to your friends.
If the world was a village of 100 people.
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 Americas, 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
70 would however have the same original God and fight about the prophets
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.
20 would use 80% of the available energy resources.
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 four 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.
If you get this by mail pass it on, and brighten someone's day. Because if he can receive and read it, he/she belongs to the few lucky people in the world. If you read this as web page and want to send it to your friends, click here.
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.
Hakan Falk
http://energysavingnow.com/
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