National Friend's Week

[bfez1]

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... you are

richer than 75% of this world.


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.

Linda

[isobar]

Wow some of those stats are really eye opening. Thanks for posting.

[ColdFront77]

Happy National Friends Week... I suppose it should be "National Internet Friends Week."

I agree, Donna. Shows how better off we really for those on a fixed income.

[breeze]

I have to count my blessings every day! And, hey -
if it's National Friends Week, "thanks" to all my Storm2K
friends! Ya'll Rock......

[weatherlover427]

It should be National WxBuddies Week. Thanks for sharing.

[JetMaxx]

Those statistics are very humbling to me. I'm so thankful to be an American...so thankful for what God has blessed me with..

I'm not wealthy...not even middle class; but am rich in spirit; and if good friends counted, I'd be among the wealthiest men on earth...

Thank you all for being my friend. I pray for you daily, and treasure you....I value you for your friendship, and the joy each of you brings to my life

God Bless All of You!
Perry

[Skywatch_NC]

Awwww....National Friend's Week!

COME HERE WXBUDDIES *ARMS WIDE OPEN* ! (((((((((HUGS)))))))))

Love and God Bless,

Eric