Thursday, February 25, 2010

"If you have food in the fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have any money in the bank, your wallet and some spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation, you are luckier than 500 million people alive going through this suffering. If you can read this message you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people in the world who cannot read at all."

7 comments:

Christopher said...

Kind of puts things in perspective eh?

Shandi said...

that really put things into perspective because I was totally just bitching about...everything a minute ago. i will stop now.

Eva said...

That makes me think I should not complain about anything.

Ashlie said...

thank you.

i'm borrowing this.

Kanwalful said...

Woah...

Small Bird said...

I just read this like, 11 times. It makes me feel weird.

zachary said...

Christina, i'm taking this to my blog, hope you don't mind.