This is a re-issue of a stark reminder that our current situation with the virus should be put into perspective with all else that is taking place each and every day around this world.
Sent to me anonymously. The figures aren't mine but I did Google a few and they come close.
Consider 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 from starvation, 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's population.
If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of the roughly 8 percent of the privileged few among the people in the world.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you're a rare individual.
If someone sent you this message, you're extremely lucky, because you don't comprise one of those 2 billion people who can't read.
And so?
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like nobody has ever hurt you.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live as if this was paradise on Earth.
. . . and count your lucky stars!
