The Story Of The Boy And The Starfish

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One evening, a man was walking along a deserted beach at sunset. In the distance, he noticed a young boy repeatedly bending down, picking something up, and throwing it into the ocean. As the man got closer, he saw that the beach was littered with starfish that had been washed up by the tide. The boy was tossing them, one by one, back into the water.

Curious, the man asked, “What are you doing?”

The boy replied, “I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. If they stay on the beach, they’ll die from lack of oxygen.”

The man looked around and said, “But there are thousands of starfish on this beach, and this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches along the coast. You can’t possibly make a difference for all of them.”

The boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the sea. Smiling, he said, “I made a difference for that one.”