I recently received one of those Power Point presentations that’s flying around the Internet these days. It wasn’t a chain mail; it simply existed to try to bring about the realization that, despite all our moaning and groaning, we really do have it easy. In a nutshell, it presented the following scenario.

If you compare the world to a village of 100 inhabitants, there would be:

• 57 Asians
• 21 Europeans
• 14 Americans
• 8 Africans

• 52 women and 48 men
• 30 caucasians and 70 people of other ethnicities
• 70 non-Christians and 30 Christians
• 89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals
• 6 would have American nationality

• 80 would be homeless
• 70 would be illiterate
• 50 would be dependent on others for survival
• 1 would have a PC
• 1 would have a college degree
• 1 would be dying and 2 would be born
• 6 people would own 59% of the wealth

With regard to the world’s actual population:

• 500 million suffer from war, solitude or hunger
• 3 billion cannot practice their religion freely
• 75% of the world’s population does not have food, clothing or roofs over thier heads
• 2 billion cannot read
• 1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water
• 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation facilities (read: no toilets)

I will think twice before the next time I complain.