MAKING A DIFFERENCE

An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish,

Beached and dying after a storm.

A young man was picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean.

“Why do you bother?” the old man scoffed.

“You are not saving enough to make a difference.”

The young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water.

“Made a difference to that one,” he said.

By Loren Eiseley