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With the school year drawing to a close, I find that I still have a lot of unanswered questions left on my mind. Now more than ever, I'm terrified of making a decision that can either make me or break me. The truth is that I've never been one to be decisive with things concerning myself. I mull over things for hours. I'm always the last one to order at a restaurant and I think it must drive everyone crazy. Sometimes, I have an amazing thing right in front of me and even then, I can't decide if I want to take a chance and enjoy it while I can. Lucky for me, I've been taking lots of chances the past few months and I've been emerging triumphant and for the better...
You know, sometimes imitation really is flattery.
Just really, really annoying flattery.
Imagine
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 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressedperspective,
the need for acceptance, understanding and education
becomes glaringly apparent.
The following points are also something else to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...
you are more blessed than the million 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 overhead and a place to sleep...
you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet,
and spare change in a dish someplace ...
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare.
This is pretty old, but I think some people really needed to think about it.