A PERSPECTIVE.......WORTH PONDERING !!!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 Asians21 Europeans14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south8 Africans52 would be female48 would be male70 would be non-white30 would be white89 would be heterosexual11 would be homosexual6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth.80 would live in substandard housing70 would be unable to read50 would suffer from malnutrition1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education1 would own a computerWhen 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 upon...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 live 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 are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.Appreciate what you have and don't dwell on the have-nots:)P.S. Sorry I still haven't had time to upload the b'day photos.. Will do it tmr.Labels: Chiny
unleash the monster in you,
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