A man was walking down the beach at sunset. As, he walked along, he saw a girl in the distance. He noticed this girl kept leaning down, picking up something and throwing it out into the water, again and again. As, he approached even closer, he noticed that the girl was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach. She was throwing them back into the water, one by one.
Puzzled, he approached the girl and said,
"Good Evening. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, I don't throw them back into the ocean, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"But, there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possible get to all of them. 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 girl bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and threw it back into the ocean. With a smile she replied, "Made a difference to that one !!!"
