Useful Perspective

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:There would be:57 Asians21 Europeans14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south8 Africans52 would be female48 would be male70 would be non-white30 would be white70 would be non-Christian30 would be Christian89 would be heterosexual11 would be homosexual6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealthand all 6 would be from the United States.80 would live in substandard housing70 would be unable to read50 would suffer from malnutrition1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth1(yes, only 1) would have a college education1 would own a computerWhen one considers our world from such a compressedperspective, the need for acceptance, understanding andeducation becomes glaringly apparent.The following is also something to ponder...If you woke up this morning with more health thanillness...you are more blessed than the million who willnot survive this week.If you have never experienced the danger of battle, theloneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or thepangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 millionpeople in the world.If you can attend a church meeting without fear ofharassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are moreblessed than three billion people in the world.If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back,a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than75% of this world.If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and sparechange in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8%of the worlds wealthy.If your parents are still alive and still married...you arevery rare, even in the United States and Canada.If you can read this message, you just received a doubleblessing in that someone was thinking of you, andfurthermore, you are more blessed than over two billionpeople in the world that cannot read at all.Someone once said: What goes around comes around.Sooooo.............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.