The face of Medusa

This story is a forward on the Internet.. which most of us must have read..

"A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
wife open a package.

What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - he was devastated to
discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning :
There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, " Mr.Mouse, I
can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me."

" I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the
house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is
nothing I can do about it but pray.
"Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my
nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the
farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound
of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did
not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital ,
and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer
took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit
with her around the clock.

To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.

So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to
provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great
sadness."

a sad reminder that we all stay on the same planet.. and all those pleas of saving the environment concern each one of us.. that issues related to any concern affect 'humanity' as a whole.. be it wars.. poverty.. education.. corruption.. terrorism.. none remains unaffected.. unscarred.. untouched..

more and more each one feels like an island.. loneliness and depression becoming the scariest woes of our time.. each terribly stressed with their 'individual' problems.. unable to discuss - because of 'fronts'.. 'masks'.. terribly bogged down affecting their health and their future both.. not once looking out to 'reach out' or 'see' their problems aren't unique to themselves.. and sadly each moves on breaking their own links with the rest of the world.. and the 'chain' that was meant to be.. that could pull each one through.. that was the 'wayfinder'.. gets broken into tiny little pieces.. scattered all over the world.. where none extends help nor asks for it..