MAKING A DIFFERENCE
My friend was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean. As my friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up on the beach, and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. My friend was puzzled.
He approached the man and said. "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see its low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can’t possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don’t you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can’t you see that you can’t possibly make a difference?"
The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"
I like the story..I always think on making a difference but I never thought that the difference is on that particular thing..I finally learn it..thanks..
ReplyDeletei smiled after reading dis story... :)
ReplyDeletecz it gav me hope dat we r actually able to makes things difference !!^^
there's many ppl out there also thought of making things difference..but lik "the friend", most of the ppl put their focus on the wrong point,which is..it's impossible to save every beaches..
y dun we shift our focus on THE ONE ? ^^
thx 4 making my day ^^
i smiled after reading dis story... :)
ReplyDeletecz it gav me hope dat we r actually able to makes things difference !!^^
there's many ppl out there also thought of making things difference..but lik "the friend", most of the ppl put their focus on the wrong point,which is..it's impossible to save every beaches..
y dun we shift our focus on THE ONE ? ^^
Hey Vikas..thats a beautiful story..i have heard it before and time and again it has inspired me to be of help to otherz...
ReplyDeletethe story tells us that helping or being with even one person makes a whole lot of difference in that person's life.. each and every individual.... person..organism is unique and special... and extending a helping hand enriches ones own life... more than the otherz...
Thank you all. Its an immense pleasure for me to get such beautiful comments. God bless you.
ReplyDeleteI liked this one. If everybody starts thinking and acting like that, we can surely change this world for better.
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