| Jan. 7th, 2005 @ 08:50 pm An interesting fwd that I received |
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Current Music: bullet the blue sky-U2
By now you all have this forward sitting in your inboxes but I found it made me think of how lucky I am so i decided to post it here.
If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small town
with 100 people, it would look something like this:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (northern and southern)
8 Africans
52 women
48 men
70 coloured-skins
30 Caucasians
89 heterosexuals
11 homosexuals
6 people would own 59% of the whole world wealth and all of
them will be from the United States of America
80 would have bad living conditions
70 would be uneducated
50 underfed
1 would die
2 would be born
1 would have a computer
1 (only one) will have higher education
When you look at the world from this point of view, you can see
there is a real need for solidarity, understanding, patience and education. Also think about the following.
This morning, if you woke up healthy, then you are happier than the 1 million people that will not survive next week.
If you never suffered a war, the loneliness of the jail cell, the agony of torture, or hunger, you are happier than 500 million people in the world.
If you can enter into a church (mosque) without fear of jail or
death, you are happier then 3 million people in the world.
If there is a food in your fridge, you have shoes and clothes, you have bed and a roof, you are richer then 75% of the people in the world.
If you have bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the money-box, you belong to the 8% of the people on the world, who are well-to-do.
If you read this you are three times blessed because:
1.somebody just thought of you.
2.you don't belong to the 200 million people that
cannot read.
3.and... you have a computer!
As somebody once said:
" work as if you don't need money,
" love as if you've never been hurt, dance, as if nobody can
see you, sing, as if no one can hear, live, as if the Earth was a heaven."
So that is about it. |
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