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The Legend of the Starfish  

 

A man was walking along the beach when he spotted a young boy near the water. At the boy's feet, and all along the beach, were starfish that had been washed up by the tide and were sure to die in the sand. The boy was walking slowly along the shore, reaching down and tossing each beached starfish back into the ocean, one-by-one. The man, thinking he could teach the boy a lesson in common sense, walked up to the boy and said, "I have been watching what you are doing, son. You have a good heart, and I know you mean well, but do you realize how many starfish there are along this beach? Do you think that what you're doing is really going to make a difference?" The boy looked up at the man, then down at a starfish by his feet. He picked up that starfish, and as he gently tossed it back into the ocean, he said to the man, "I made a difference to that one."