I received the following in an email and couldn’t help but be reminded how grateful I am for EVERY THING! I hope it’s a little reminder for you as well to enjoy and be grateful for today.
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of:
57 Asians / 21 Europeans / 14 Americans (North, Central and South) / 8 Africans
There would be:
52 women and 48 men
30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians
30 Christians and 70 non-Christians
89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals
6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA
80 would live in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be being born
1 would own a computer
1 (yes, only one) would have a university degree
If we looked at the world in this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious.
But, consider again the following : If you woke up this morning in good health, you have more luck than one million people, who won’t live through the week.
If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death fromstarvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.
If you can go to your place of worship without fear that someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckier than 3 billion (that’s right) people.
If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’ population.
If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of 8 of the privileged few amongst the 100 people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you’re a rare individual.
If you are reading this message, you’re extremely lucky, because you don’t comprise one of those 2 billion people who can’t read.
Finally! After months filled with what seems nothing but feelings … a thought. A refreshing thought not attached to any person but myself. A thought to occupy, question and tickle my spirit.
While relaxing in my hot tub … at my new abode … by myself … staring up from the mountains into a space filled with stars.
Would I go to space if I could?
Well, would you? Because when you’re in a pane and look down, people, cars, buildings, land … they all get much smaller. This aerial view gives you a perspective. What if you could look down from space and view the entire world as something small, as a single object?
Say money was no object and you could get a seat on a chartered spaceship next month … knowing that there are obvious risks. Let’s say also you alone. No one else you know can go. Just you, your life, your experience, your perspective … would you go?
Now, lets make it more interesting for spaceship scardy cats like myself.
What if there was a path/ trail you could safely walk to get into space? A long path … one that took ten years to complete. A safe path though, one with clinics and food supply along the way. But, a path that you would have to walk for 10hrs everyday for 10 years. Would you go?
Most likely if you made it, even if you started out with a large group you’d probably be alone when you made it. You’d have to leave your entire life behind for 10 years with no guarantee of return. All for the chance at a brief moment in space looking down at earth. Would you make that journey?
Would I walk to space if I could?
Really, when’s the last time you just looked up at the stars and let yourself be blown away by the awesomeness of space, stars, earth, life! I highly recommend the viewing from a hot tub on top of a mountain!
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some celebratory morning dancing stretch music for yah!
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What a fantastic way to start a day! This video made me smile, get teary eyed, want to dance and travel the world in under 10 minutes. Take 7 minutes and watch the video full screen with sound up! Then remember to live your day and your life with the things that make you smile or get you on the road to smiling days! If you’re having a particular rough go of things, maybe watch it everyday for a while … that is until you make your own!
Fantastic and Inspiring Video! Thanks to Julie Umbach owner of Gratitude & Co. for sharing. ‘Celebrate what’s right with the world’ with National Geographic Photographer Dewitt Jones
