One At Time

[Kevin]

My fren posted this at my forum from (http://www.xr3club.forumwise.com) from Chicken Soup for the Soul,so i thought i should post it here!

One At Time

A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in 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 things out into the ocean.

As our friend approached even closer, he niticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach, and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into teh water.

Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, "Good evenign, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."

"I'm throwing the starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here 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 mak a difference?"

The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!

By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
From Chicken Soup for the Soul.

 

[cly]

I've heard that one before, but it's still worth reading again!

 

[Kevin]

Yea i gues you can always make a difference no matter wot!