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Sorting through his stuff, our contributor Paul Whitelock came across this print-off of an e-mail giving a fresh perspective on our world. He doesn’t remember where it came from but thought it interesting and worth sharing with readers of Secret Serranía.
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, and eight Africans.
52 of the villagers would be female and 48 male. 70 would be non-white and 30 would be white. 70 would be non-Christian and 30 of them would be Christian. 89 would be heterosexual and 11 would be homosexual.
Six people would possess 59% of the entire village’s (world’s) wealth and all six would be from the United States. 80 would live in sub-standard housing. 70 would be unable to read and 50 would suffer from malnutrition. One would be near death and one would be near birth.
One (yes, only one!) would have a college education and only one would own a computer.
When we consider 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 million people 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 over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 per cent of the population of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet or purse, and spare change in a dish somewhere, you are among the top eight per cent of the world’s wealthy people.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you are a very rare person indeed.
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 who 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’.
Pass this message on to everyone you consider a friend and brighten their day. If you pass it on, someone might smile because of you.
Source: Unknown
