Recently, there has been some coverage in the news about a town in Wyoming that currently has only one resident. There were more people living there at one time, but everyone else has died or moved.   The one remaining resident is essentially the mayor, chief of police, etc. all by himself. The last resident to leave the town was his son. The story was interesting as far as it went, but didn't tell us how this one person get food, medical care, banking, etc. He obviously has to depend on others living in other towns to provide those and many other things for him. So he really isn't on his own, is he?
    In fact, none of us are really on our own. We all really on others for many things. And we are all connected to each other whether we like it or not. The science of quantum physics has verified this on a sub-atomic level and it is equally true at a higher level. Not only is everyone connected, but everything is connected so the bell does indeed toll for thee. 
    When we insist we have to have a ridiculous amount of luxuries for ourselves and our families while others go without food and clothing we forget that they are connected to us, they are our family also. When we spend thousands on plastic surgery, botox treatments, or other elective medical procedure while elsewhere children die of easily cured illnesses if they only had doctors available to provide the drugs, that bell too tolls for us. We have a tendency to think of charity only after we have spent our money on virtually everything we can possibly have for ourselves. We need to stop thinking that way and look at charity at the same level as paying the mortgage and buying food and before trading in a three-month-old cell phone for the newer model.