Response to Milestones & Memories

James Koo

After reading Bob Chen's article, my heart goes out for him. It seems time has not healed his wound and cured his pain.

Until reaching the last sentence pleading for help, I thought here is another Lighter trying to use mathematics to solve the love relation. Should he succeed, there is a Nobel prize waiting for him as I understand they awarded a Nobel prize for game theory, and love is far more complicated than game. 

I recently received an email from an investment banker. Until he had a car accident that could easily take his life, he was successful in pursuing money, power and fame. Now he sends me article like the one below. I hope this article will make Bob more cheerful. I count my blessings everyday when I see the sunrise, hear the bird singing, and smell the roses. Cheer up, and count your blessings, Bob!



Perspective

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans

52 would be female 48 would be male
70 would be people of color 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual 11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder... 

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

It's National Friendship Week.

Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. Pass this on, and brighten up someone's day!

Nothing will happen to you if you do not decide to pass it along. The only thing that will happen is that someone might smile because of you!!!

Happy friendship week everyone!