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Thanks Jim - very thought provoking. Deanna - I told you yesterday how to do it!!! Daisy :))

Thank you for reminding me how lucky I am (I was feeling a bit fed up) cheers H

I loved that, but I still cannot copy, cut, and paste!!!! I'll have someone to SHOW me on Saturday! Deanna

Thank you Jim, l am truly blessed. Anne xxx

Thank you, Jim. I hope that this will keep being nudged ... keeping things in perspective. :-) Joy

Yes, makes you realise just where you fit in the big scheme of things. Sometimes life needs putting into perspective, ones own view gets so easily magnified. Jess x

Wow that,s an eye opener!!!!!!. Debs.

Yes Grampa, Something for all to think about ain't it? Thank you for posting this, I have seen parts of this before, but it does no harm to see it again with a lot I hadn't seen. I feel very lucky when I get up, no pain, no hunger a roof over my head, a few extra coppers in the pocket, yeah that feels good. The colour of my skin, my religion(or none) makes no difference, it could happen tomorrow that I become less fortune then I am now, then who will listen? Yeah good post that is. Thanks Grampa Pat x

THIS PUTS OUR WORLD INTO A PERSPECTIVE MORE EASILY UNDERSTOOD. 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 compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something 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... 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 and Canada. 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 two billion people in the world that cannot read at all. Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth. It's National Friendship Week. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. Pass this on, and brighten someone's day. Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along. The only thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone might smile because of you.

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