MAKING A SMALL DIFFERENCE
This is a popular anecdote I read somewhere on the net, and thought would share for the benefit of those who haven't seen it.
While
walking along a beach, a young gentleman saw an elderly man in the distance,
leaning down. On coming closer, the young man saw that the elderly gentleman
was picking up starfish painstakingly- one after the other- and throwing them
back into the sea.
The
young man, consumed with curiosity at this strange behavior, came closer still
and called out, “Good morning, sir! May I ask what your grand plan is?”
The
elderly man paused, looked up, and smiled, “Simple…throwing starfish back into
the ocean.”
The
tide had thrown up several thousands of starfish-struggling to breathe -on to
the shore.
The
young man smiled and asked again, “There are so many thousands of them…you
can’t obviously save all of them. So what difference does it make, my good
sir?”
The elderly smiled again, and tossing yet
another fish into the ocean, remarked, “There! I made a difference to that one.”
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