Story from The King's Princess

This is a rather nice statistical summary of life on Earth and gives us reason to contemplate on our own lot. If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all people on Earth, this village would consist of:

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 world’s 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 born
1 would have a university degree

If we look at the world in this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious.

Also consider the following:
If you woke up in the morning, you are luckier than 1 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, or not close todeath from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.
If you can go to a place of worship without fear that someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckierthan 3 billion people.
If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you arewealthier 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 theprivileged eight amongst the 100.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you are a rare individual.
If someone happens to send you a message like this one you are extremely lucky, because that someone isthinking of you and because you are not among the 2 billion people who can’t read.


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 paradise on Earth