STATISTICS

If we could reduce the population of the Earth to only 100 individuals while keeping the existing proportion of distribution of all the existing nations this would be the breakdown:

57 people would be from Asia, 21 from Europe, 14 from Americas (North, Central, and South), 8 from Africa.

52 people would be male, 46 female, 30 would be white, 70 would be of other races, 30 would be Christian, 70 of other religions, 79 heterosexuals, 21 homosexuals.

6% of people would own 59% of the riches of the entire world and all 6 would be from the United States.

80 people would live in unsanitary conditions, 40 would be illiterate, 50 would be hungry, 1 would be dying, 1 would be born.

2 would own a computer, and 1, only 1, would be highly educated.

When you look at the world from this perspective, the need for

ACCEPTANCE, FORGIVENESS, and UNDERSTANDING is more that obvious.

Try to keep in mind the following:

• if you have woken up this morning feeling healthy, you are luckier than 500 000 million people that will not wake up the next morning

• if you have never experienced the fear of war, loneliness, incarceration, the agony of torture, hunger, you are in a better position than 500 million people in the world

• if you can enter a church freely, without threats, or the fear of getting arrested or discriminated against, you are luckier than 3 billion people on the planet

• if you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your body, roof over your head, a place to sleep in, you are richer than 75% of inhabitants of this planet

• if you have money in the bank, your wallet, or change somewhere in some box, you are among 8% of well-to-do people

• if you have parents, and are still married, you belong in a rare group of people

• if you can read this text, you are not among 2 billion people who cannot read

 

Somebody said once: work as if you do not need money, love as if you have never suffered, dance as if nobody is watching you and sing as if nobody is listening.
Live as if Heaven is on Earth. And when you read this know that somebody is thinking of you and that you are not alone.