The Story of the Starfish or Helping others does make a difference.

 

 

Once there was a man who was walking along the beach in the early morning.  He noticed another man on the beach a distance ahead of him doing a strange dance.  The man caught up with the ‘dancing’ man and spoke to him saying “lovely morning” the man who had been doing the ‘dance’ replied “ yes lovely”.

The first man was overcome with curiosity and said he had seen the other man doing his ‘dance’.  “I was not dancing” he replied “I was throwing starfish back into the sea before they die.”  The first man had not noticed but the beach was covered with dying starfish.

So the ‘dancing’ man picked up another dying starfish and threw it into the sea so it might live.   The first man said “you know you are wasting your time don’t you, there are so many starfish, throwing a few back in, will make no difference.

 

The ‘dancing’ man picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea and said “well it made a difference to that one!”

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