Everyone in the world should read this

niceguypaulTue 13/09/11 19:22

A friend posted this on Facebook and I was so impressed with it that I wanted to give it the widest possible audience. Please pass it on:

you are better off than most....read why
.by Fiona Verity on Monday, 12 September 2011 at 18:11.WHATEVER KINDA DAY ITS PROBABLY BETTER THAN MOST>>>>

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

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 Americans (North, Central and South)

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

6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they

would all come from the USA

80 would live in poverty

70 would be illiterate

50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition

1 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 obvi

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) people.

If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof

over your head and a place to sleep, you are

wealthier than 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 someone sent you this message,

you're extremely lucky,

Because someone is thinking of you

and 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 was paradise on Earth.

Send this message to your friends.

Bypass those, who will treat this as childish, having their

own egocentric view of the world.

If you don't send it, nothing will happen.

If you do send it, someone might smile while they are

reading it, and that will be a positive.

AND APART FROM THAT,

SIMPLY HAVE A NICE DAY

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azzet1Tue 13/09/11 19:29

Ohhhhhhh how lovely!

rugbyshortsTue 13/09/11 19:37

Aye, for all the problems we have here, we'd do well to remember how fortunate we are in this country, in comparison to just about anywhere else.

If you still need convincing, look how hard foreigners try to get here and then fight to stay here if they've arrived illegally.

I would have to be very badly off to think stowing away under the rear axle of a lorry for 3,000 miles and never see my family/friends again to be worthwhile; or to sit on a raft and paddle across the sea to be worth the danger.

(Of course, that doesn't excuse the governments of these countries for not sorting themselves out and making these countries better places for the citizens to live).