100 People world

“If it were possible to reduce the population of the entire world to 100 inhabitants, maintaining the proportions of people which currently exist in the world, it would be made up as follows:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central and South)
8 Africans
52 would be women
48 men
70 non-white
30 white
89 would be heterosexual
11 homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth
80 would dwell in inhabitable housing
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would have a computer
1 (yes, just one) would have a university degree

And consider this: if you are more healthy than sick, you are luckier than a million people who will not see next week. If you never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of prison, the agony of torture, the pain of hunger, you are luckier than 500 million of the world's inhabitants.
If you have food in the fridge, clothes in your closet, a roof over your head, a place to sleep, then consider yourself richer than 75% of the world's inhabitants.
If you have money in the bank, a wallet or some loose change lying around somewhere, consider yourself among those with the best quality of life in the world”

When I read the above, for a moment…., I felt to thank god for making me born & brought up in peaceful place, thank my parents for giving me good education, and thank others who had helped me to reach at least this far so that I can read the above stats in my office and write a blog on it. The stats say that there are other people who are in terrible condition than me and I must feel contended with my present life as richer & luckier.

But next moment….I think on the things yet to be achieved, miles to be traveled… and then what I have reached now, seems obsolete… I had this vision of comparing myself with those who are behind, feeling contended with what I have, and guess what….I ended stagnating. I also felt myself divine being able to be contended and travel with the flow and wanted to see where it will take me…. It never took me any where and I was where I was... I later realized that I was fooling myself and the extra mile that I could have reached was already gone.

It was better late than never for me to imbibe the blood of this IT smitten Indian generation…"Just forget the sentiments!". I promised to stay on course, confident that the best is yet to be, and move on …