It Makes A Difference

I found this somewhere and thought I should share it with all of you. You too, can make a difference. Big or small.

One day, at dawn, a man was walking on the beach, and in the distance, he saw a figure that looked as if it were dancing. As he got closer, he saw that the beach was littlered with thousands of starfish,and the figure was a little boy, who was picking up the starfish one by one and throwing the into the ocean.

As the man approached the boy, he said to him, "What are you doing?" The little boy replied, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the water - if I leave them here, when the sun gets hot, they'll dry up and die." The man pointed at all the starfish and said, "But look how many there are; what you're doing can't possibly make a difference." And as the boy picked up yet another starfish and threw it into the ocean, he said, "Well... it makes a difference to this one."

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