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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1526695" data-attributes="member: 99">Torm, there's a story that I've heard from a couple of different sources over the years that I'd like to relate.  I'd give attribution but I don't know who to give it to:A woman went down to the beach one morning and saw that the tide overnight had, for some unknown reason, washed up thousands upon thousands of starfish onto the sand.  The tide had since gone out and as the sun came up it began to dry out these starfish who were in no position to pull themselves back into the water on their own.  They were doomed.She was very sad about this but what could one person do in the face of such a task?  She then saw a man walking up the beach in her direction.  Every few steps he would bend down and pick up a starfish and toss it into the water.  The woman approached him and said, "Isn't this horrible?!  Why did this have to happen?!"The man calmly replied, "Well, we can hardly control what the tide does."  He bent and grabbed up another starfish, tossing it casually into the water."You'll never save them all you know," she said."It isn't my job to save them all."  He stooped and gently threw another starfish into the water.  "But I saved that one," said the man with a smile.  He resumed his walk down the beach, stopping every few steps to save another starfish.Torm, I try to stop and save a starfish once in a while and I'll bet that you and most of the rest of humanity do too.  It doesn't make the news, though the fact that the beach is littered with dying starfish hits the front page every day.  I just try to remember that just because I didn't save every starfish doesn't mean that I didn't make a difference.And I'm enjoying my stroll down the beach too.</blockquote>

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