A Grateful Note

---Distributed thru Internet.

To all my friends:
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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 bow some place....
You are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

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 attend a religious meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death....
You are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married....
You are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a lovely smile on your face and are truly thankful....
You are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing, that someone was thinking of you and furthermore....
You are more blessed than over 2 billion people in the world that can not read at all.

Count your blessings and remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

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"Gaining is joyful, and so is losing...
      only, the joy is not about gaining or losing but the Tao in my living."

---A motto from David.