THE STARFISH STORY      

There was once an old man who went to the seaside every morning to write after walking along the beach. One morning, he stumbled upon a stretch of beach where thousands of starfish had washed up.

The old man noticed a little girl approaching in the distance. As she walked, she would stop every so often to bend down and pick up an object and throw it into the sea.

As she came closer, the man asked what she was doing. She paused, looked up, and replied, “Throwing starfish into the sea.”

The man asked her why, to which she replied, “The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t go back to the sea by themselves. When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The man noted, “But there are miles and miles of beach and there are thousands of starfish all along every mile, how will you make much of a difference?”

The girl bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she turned towards the old man, gave a smile and said, “I made a difference to that one!”

The Moral

This story is about how one step towards changing the world can make a big difference. Be the change for someone and inspire others to do the same.

We all have opportunities to create positive change. However, we often think we can’t do enough to make a big difference so we delay our actions or wait for someone else to initiate.  We start procrastinating by thinking, “How much of a difference can I really make?” 

While you may not be able to change the whole world, you can make a big change for a small part of it.