One day a woman was walking along a beach. The entire beach was littered with hundreds of starfish who had been washed up by the tides because of a fearsome storm that had happened the night before. Every time she came to a starfish, she picked it up, and threw it back into the ocean.
After a while, her friend who had been watching and walking silently with her said: “I don’t understand why you are doing this. There must be hundred of starfish here. What you are doing is not going to make any difference.
The woman continued picking up the starfish one by one and throwing them back into the ocean. She spoke to her friend without missing a starfish and said: “Well, it made a difference to that one.”
What you do makes a difference,
and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.
~ Jane Goodall