Lessons from a dying Starfish

An old man, walking on a beach one morning, noticed a young woman walking ahead of him. As she walked, she would bend down every now and then, picking up starfish and throwing them back into the sea. Catching up with the woman, he asked her why she was doing this. She replied that the poor starfish had got washed ashore at night, and would probably die in the morning sun. ‘But this beach stretches for miles and there are probably a million starfish on the shore,’ countered the old man. ‘How will your effort make any difference?’ The young woman looked at the starfish in her hand, flung it into the water and said, ‘Well, it sure made a difference to that one.’