If the World were a village of 100 people

When you woke this morning, did you look forward joyously to the day?

When you go to bed tonight, do you think you will be filled with satisfaction?

Do you think the place you are is precious?

In the world today [this is an ole bit of text mind you], 6 billion 300 million people live. 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 the following:

There would be:
- 61 Asians
- 13 Africans
- 13 from North and South America
- 21 Europeans
- and the remaining one from the South Pacific

- 52 would be female
- 48 would be male
- 30 would be children
- 70 would be adults

among those,
- 7 would be aged
- 70 would be non-white
- 30 would be white
- 33 would be Christians
- 19 believe in Islam
- 13 Would be Hindus
- 6 would follow Buddhist teaching
- 5 would believe that there are spirits in the trees and rocks and in all the nature
- 24 would believe in other religions or would believe in no religion
- 89 would be heterosexual
- 11 would be homosexual

- 17 would speak Chinese
- 9 English
- 8 Hindi and Urdu
- 6 Spanish
- 6 Russian
- 4 would speak Arabic
That would account for half the village
The other half would speak Bengal, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, German, French or some other languages

- 20 are undernourished
- 1 is dying of starvation, while
- 15 are over weight
- 6 people would process 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from United States.
- 74 People own 39%
- 20 people share the remaining 2%
- 75 People have some supply of food and a place to shelter them from wind and the rain, but 25 do not.
- 17 have no clean, safe water to drink

Of the energy of this village
- 20 people consume 80% and
- 80 people share the remaining 20%

If you have money in the bank, money in your wallet and spare change somewhere around the house - You are among the richest 8

If you have a car - You are among the richest 7

Among the villagers
- 1 has a college education
- 2 have computers
- 14 cannot read

If you can speak and act according to your faith and your conscience without harassment, imprisonment, torture or death - then you are more fortunate than 48, who cannot.

If you do not live in fear or death by bombardment, armed attack, landmines or of rape or kidnapping by armed groups - then you are more fortunate that 20, who do.

In one year,
- 1 person in the village will die
but in the same year
- 2 babies will be born
so that at the year’s end the number of villagers will be 101

If your parents are still alive and still married you are very rare
If you can read this email, That means you are thrice-blessed; Because
1. someone was thinking of you
2. because you are able to read
And most important
3. Because you are alive

Someone once said: what comes around goes around; So:
- sing from the bottom of your heart
- Dance with your body waving free
- And live putting your soul into it

And when you love
- Love as though you have never been wounded - even you have - And love the fact that you and others live here in this village

Perhaps, If enough of us learn to love our village , It may yet be possible to save it from violece that is tearing it apart.