Just before I go to bed:

AUSTRALIANS!! Excluding Western Australians, Northern Territorians, and Queenslanders... do remember to put your clocks BACK one hour tonight!! YAY!! EXTRA SLEEP :D ALSO. The Fire Fighters of Australia recommend you change the batteries in your smoke alarm at the same time, so do that!! Keep safe! :D

Finally tonight, an e-mail that my mother forwarded to me:

If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central and South)
8 Africans

There would be:
52 Women and 48 Men
30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians
30 Christians and 70 non-Christians
89 Heterosexuals
11 Homosexuals

6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA.
80 would live in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be being born
1 would own a computer
1 would have a University degree

If we looked at the world in this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious. But consider again 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 never experienced the horror or 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 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 8 privileged few amongst the 100 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 someone is thinking of you and 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.

Send this message to your friends.

Bypass those who will treat this as childish, having their own egocentric view of the world.

If you don't send it, nothing will happen. If you do send it, someone might smile while they are reading it, and that will be a positive.

And apart from that... simply have a nice day. :)

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I don't normally like these sort of e-mails very much, but this is one of the few that is well written and gets the message across. It makes me feel VERY privileged and thankful for what I have. Especially because I'm a rare individual whose parents are both still alive and together. I love my family so much <3 My parents are my heroes.

And a few things over the week have made me remember how much you guys mean to me. Seriously. Even if we never meet in real life, or even talk to each other... I am so happy to know you.

Wow. Talk about sappiness tonight! LOL. <3 :D Anyway. *smooches* :D

Peace,
Rotae