Little Changes Count - The Starfish Story

Once upon a time, there was an old man who had a habit of walking along the beautiful beach before starting his work. He used to go to the seaside every morning to do his writing. One beautiful Sunday as per his morning routine, he went to the sea shore and started walking along the shore. As he moved ahead, he came along a stretch on which thousands of starfish had washed up. He found the beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions. From a distance far from his sight, the old man noticed a little girl approaching. As the girl walked, she paused every so often. When she came closer, the old man could see that she was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. When the little girl came a bit closer to the old man, he said, “Good morning little princess!!! May I ask what it is that you are doing now?” The pretty little girl paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing starfish into the sea.” The little girl continued her job of picking and throwing back the starfishes into the sea. “I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the sea?”, asked the old man. To this, the little girl replied, “The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return back to the sea by themselves. When the sun gets high… Upon hearing this, the old man commented, ‘But, little girl, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? There must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference!” The girl bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she turned towards old man, gave a sweet smile and said, “I made a difference to that one!” The Moral: The story's main takeaway is that even seemingly small acts of kindness can have a profound impact on the recipient. It highlights the idea that we shouldn't be deterred from doing good simply because we can't solve all the world's problems at once.

How to help a 'walking' starfish on the beach 
If you ever see a starfish walking beyond the water’s edge, help it survive by putting it back into the ocean. Zeb Hallock filmed this 2012 clip of a Luidia clathrata seastar in Corolla, North Carolina before relocating the animal for its safety:

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