I found this interesting.
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central, and South)
8 Africans
There would be:
52 women and 48 men
30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians
30 Christians and 70 non-Christians
89 Heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals
6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA
80 would live in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be being born
1 would own a computer
1 (yes, only one) would have a university degree
If you woke up this morning in good health, you have more luck than one million people, who won’t live through the week.
If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.
If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’s population.
If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of the 8 of the privileged few amongst the 100 people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you’re a rare individual
If someone sent you this message, you’re extremely lucky, because someone is thinking of you and because you don’t comprise one of those 2 billion who can’t read.
And So:
Work like you don’t need the money
Love like nobody has ever hurt you
Dance like nobody is watching
Sing like nobody is listening
Live as if this was paradise on Earth
If only the creative person that made the lovely PowerPoint that this blog post came from had bothered to put credits on the images he ‘borrowed’.
http://www.TheLightningCatchers.com
Amazing!!!
Lightning in a Jar:Opinions
I qualified for all but one, of the thoughts about my statist in life and that was that my parents are deceased. I could add to that by saying that I also have the love of family and friends to comfort help and advise me when I need it the most. There is also the love of those you know care about you, but are silent for one reason or another and that kind of love is deeply recognized and appreciated and will never be forgotten ever.
Lightning in a Jar:Opinions
I qualified for all but one, of the thoughts about my statist in life and that was that my parents are deceased. I could add to that by saying that I also have the love of family and friends to comfort help and advise me when I need it the most. There is also the love of those you know care about you, (especially men) but are silent for one reason or another and that kind of love is deeply recognized and appreciated and will never be forgotten ever. I will always remember the smile on their face and the look in their eyes. or on rare occasions the touch of their hands. Yes I am very fortunate and wealthy indeed. gs.