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’s exactly what Phillip M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:
Fifty-seven 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 non-white; 30 would be white; 70 would be non-Christian; 30 would be Christian, 89 would he heterosexual; 11 would be homosexual; 6 people would possess 59 percent of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 of those would be from the United States.
Eighty would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; one would be near death, one would be pregnant; one would have a college education; one would own a computer.
Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to cat 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 or 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 over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of this world.
If you have money in the bank and in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the world’s wealthiest top 3 percent.
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 a healing touch.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than 2 billion-plus people in the world who can not read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings and pass this along to remind everyone how blessed we all are.