Story:

Once an older man, was walking the beach at dawn. As he walked, he noticed that the beach was literally covered, as far as the eye could see, with starfish. He also noticed a young boy ahead of him who was picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Catching up with the youth, he asked him what he was doing.

The boy replied, “I am picking these starfish up and throwing them back into the sea so that they do not die.”

“But the beach goes on for miles and miles, and there are millions of starfish,” countered the man. “How can your effort make any difference?”

The boy looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to safety in the waves. “It makes a difference to this one,” he said.