Monday, February 14, 2011

INTERESTING STATISTICS

If you can read this, you should read this ...

and then be thankful and grateful.

Then perhaps try to do something

for someone not so fortunate.



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 America)

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 1 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 for 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

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.

(Think about this last one very hard)


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