100 People--Food for thought

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Whew, I had to wait a few days for the weekend to post this. Thought this

was really good..good enough to share here.

If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people  -  with

all

the human ratios existing in the world still remaining -  what would this

tiny,

diverse village look like?

That is exactly what M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford

University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out.  This is what he

found:

57 would be Asian

21 would be European

14 would be from the Western Hemisphere

8 would be African

52 would be female

48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite

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 percent 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 pregnant

1 would have a college education

1 would own a computer.

The following is an anonymous interpretation:

If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a  member

of a very select group.

And if you have a good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are

among the very elite.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more

fortunate 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 fortunate, more than 3 billion people in the world

can't.

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 the 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, even in

the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you

are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder...

you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

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 2

billion people in the world that cannot read it at all.

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone

else how blessed we all are.