The Starfish 

Author Unknown

One child came upon another child on the beach one day. The second child was walking along, looking down, then every few feet would bend down, pick somehting up out of the sand, and toss it into the ocean. The first child asked what kind of game this was.

The second child replied, “I’m saving starfish.”

The first child was incredulous. “Are you kidding? There are too many! What are you going to do? Spend all day and all night out here, tossing starfish back into the ocean? You’ll never save them all. And anyway, in the grand scheme of life, they’re just starfish. It does’nt matter if they live or die.”

The second child scooped another starfish up from the sand, considered it briefly, then hurled it into the ocean.

“It mattered to that one.”