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There's a story about a child who once lived by the ocean.
One day he saw that his favorite beach was full of
starfish which had been washed ashore in a terrible storm.
The little boy knew that unless the starfish were
returned to the water they would surely die.
Even though there were thousands of starfish and he was
only one small person, the boy knew he had to try his
best to return them to safety. So he started to pick up the
starfish, one at a time, and tossed each one as far out into
the ocean as he possibly could throw them
A man came by and seeing what the boy was doing;
simply laughed at him.
"You're just wasting your time,"
said the man as he pointed to the thousands of lost
starfish stranded on the shore of the beach. "It won't
matter son, you can't possibly save these starfish." As
the child picked up the next starfish he answered, "maybe
so Sir, but it matters to this one!"
