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 nore 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 who 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. Be a Friend to the world. Send this on to everyone you consider a Friend. Pass this on, and brighten someone's day. Someone might smile because you did.