My li'l brother says ... "Have some perspective"

If the population of the Earth? was reduced to that of a small town with 100 people, it would look something like this:

• 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Americans (northern and southern), 8 Africans


• 52 women, 48 men


• 70 coloured-skins, 30 caucasians


• 89 heterosexuals, 11 homosexuals


• 6 people would own 59% of the whole world wealth and all of them will be from the United States of America


• 80 would have bad living conditions


• 70 would be uneducated


• 50 underfed


• 1 would die


• 2 would be born


• 1 would have a computer


• 1 (only one) will have higher education

When you look at the world from this point of view, you can see there is a real need for solidarity, understanding, patience and education.

Also think about the following:

• This morning, if you woke up healthy, then you are happier than the 1 million people that will not survive next week.


• If you never suffered a war, the loneliness of the jail cell, the agony of torture, or hunger, you are happier than 500 million people in the world.


• If you can enter into a church (mosque) without fear of jail or death, you are happier than 3 million people i n the world.


• If there is a food in your fridge, you have shoes and clothes, you have bed and a roof, you are richer then 75% of the people in th e world.


• If you have bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the money-box, you belong to the 8% of the people on the world, who are well-to-do.

If you read this you are three times blessed because:
1. somebody just thought of you.
2. you don't belong to the 200 million people that cannot read.
3. and... you have a computer!

As somebody once said:

"- work as if you don't need money,
- love as if you've never been hurt,
- dance, as if nobody can see you,
- sing, as if no one can hear,
- live, as if the Earth was a heaven."