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One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a small boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”

The little boy replied, “I am saving all the starfish that have been stranded on the beach. The surf is up and the tide is going out and if I don’t throw them back, they will die”.

The man looked around and noticed that there were miles and miles of beach and literally thousands of starfish.

He looked at the beach again and then at the small boy and said, “Well, you won’t make much of a difference, will you?”

After listening politely, the little boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the sea. Then, looking up, he smiled and said to the man, “I made a difference for that one.”

‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ - Mahatma Gandhi

Story taken from book Thank You - Your Guide to Appreciating Life

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