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The Story of the Man who
Loved Starfish
A friend of ours was walking
down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to
see another manin the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the
local native kept leaning down, picking something up, and throwing it out
into the water. Time and again, he kept hurling something out into the
ocean.
As our friend approached
even closer,he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed
up on the beach and, one at a time, was throwing them back into the water.
Our friend was puzzled.
He approached the man and said, "Good evening, friend. I was wondering
what youare doing?"
"I'm throwing these
starfish back into the ocean. You see, it is low tide right now, and all
of these starfish have washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them
back into the sea,they'll die from lack of oxygen."
"I understand,"
my friend replied,"but there must be thousands of starfish on this
beach! You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many!
And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches
all up and down this coast? Can't you see that you can't possibly make
a difference?"
The local native smiled,
bent down, and picked up yet another starfish and, as he threw it back
into the sea, replied,"Made a difference to THAT one!"
~Author Unknown
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