The following information was sent to me in the form of a PowerPoint Slide Show, an attachment to an email from a friend. The author is unknown to me and I cannot vouch for the correctness of the facts but I thought it both interesting and enlightening, so I transcribed it for posting here. Wherever we, as individuals, fit in the jigsaw puzzle of human Life that makes up our Global Village, we should be grateful for what we have and for the opportunity to better ourselves through the power of our individual self will. Again, I don’t know about the accuracy of the facts stated here, but I assume whoever wrote it did the appropriate research. I think it is worth reading - several times.......
A GLOBAL VILLAGE
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of;
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Americans (North, Central, and South) and 8 Africans.
There would be; 52 women and 48 men, 30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians, 30 Christians and 70 non-Christians, 89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals.
Six people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA. Eighty people would live in poverty, 70 would be illiterate, 50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition. One would be dying, 1 would be being born, 1 would own a computer, 1 (yes, only one) would have a university degree.
If we looked at the world in this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious.
But, consider again the following;
If you woke up this morning in good health, you have more luck than one million people, who won’t live through the week.
If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.
If you can go to your place of worship without fear that someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckier than 3 billion (that’s right) 3 Billion people.
If you have a full refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over you head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier that 75% of the world’s population.
If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of 8 of the privileged few amongst the 100 people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you’re a rare individual.
If you are able to read this, you’re extremely luck because you don’t comprise one of those 2 billion people who can’t read.
And So....
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like nobody has ever hurt you.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live as if this is, indeed, Paradise on Earth.
A GLOBAL VILLAGE
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of;
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Americans (North, Central, and South) and 8 Africans.
There would be; 52 women and 48 men, 30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians, 30 Christians and 70 non-Christians, 89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals.
Six people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA. Eighty people would live in poverty, 70 would be illiterate, 50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition. One would be dying, 1 would be being born, 1 would own a computer, 1 (yes, only one) would have a university degree.
If we looked at the world in this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious.
But, consider again the following;
If you woke up this morning in good health, you have more luck than one million people, who won’t live through the week.
If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.
If you can go to your place of worship without fear that someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckier than 3 billion (that’s right) 3 Billion people.
If you have a full refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over you head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier that 75% of the world’s population.
If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of 8 of the privileged few amongst the 100 people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you’re a rare individual.
If you are able to read this, you’re extremely luck because you don’t comprise one of those 2 billion people who can’t read.
And So....
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like nobody has ever hurt you.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live as if this is, indeed, Paradise on Earth.
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