Something To Think About

I've seen this email forwarded around before. It arrived in my mailbox again and I thought that it would be good to share it since it is somewhat relevant to the message in the "Get Real" post.

It reads:

"
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 than 3 million people i n 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 th e 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.
"