| While
walking the beach, a man saw someone in the distance leaning
down, picking something up and throwing
it into the sea.
As
he came closer, he saw thousands of starfish the tide
had thrown onto the beach. Unable to return to the ocean
during low tide, the starfish were dying. He observed
a young boy picking up the starfish one by one and throwing
them back into the ocean.
After
watching the seemingly futile effort, the observer said,
"There must be thousands of starfish on this beach.
It would be impossible for you to save all of them. There
are simply too many. You can't possibly make a difference."
The
young boy smiled as he picked up another starfish and
tossed it back into the ocean. "It made a difference
to that one," he replied. He was making a huge difference
to a few starfish.
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