A man was walking along a deserted beach at
sunset. As he walked he could see a young boy in
the distance, as he drew nearer he noticed that
the boy kept bending down, picking something up
and throwing it into the water. Time and again
he kept hurling things into the ocean.
As the man approached even closer, he was able
to see that the boy was picking up starfish that
had been washed up on the beach and, one at a
time he was throwing them back into the water.
The man asked the boy what he was doing, the boy
replied, "I am throwing these washed up starfish
back into the ocean, or else they will die
through lack of oxygen. "But", said the man,
"You can't possibly save them all, there are
thousands on this beach, and
this must be happening on hundreds of beaches
along the coast. You can't
possibly make a
difference." The boy smiled, bent down and
picked up another starfish, and as he threw it
back into the sea, he replied. "I made a huge
difference to that one!"
Think about a
time when your efforts made a difference.
Author Unknown
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I
am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can
do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to
do something I can do. -Edward
Everett Hale
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