Sucks..

It sucks when the person who turns you on turns you off.

The World in a Village.

This statistics, which buzzes around the Internet, has been published in numerous places across the 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      would be 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.

The Cocoon.

The great Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis (”Zorba the Greek”) tells us that once when he was a boy he noticed a cocoon stuck to a tree, with a butterfly was about to be born. He waited a while, but it was taking so long, so he decided to warm the cocoon with his breath. The butterfly finally emerged but its wings were still stuck together and it died soon afterwards.

“I just couldn’t wait for the sun to complete the necessary process of patient maturation,” says Kazantzakis. “That small corpse is until this very day one of the heaviest burdens on my conscience. But that’s what made me understand what a true mortal sin is: trying to force the great laws of the universe. We have to have patience, wait for the right time and then follow confidently the rhythm that God has chosen for our lives.”