A young boy was walking along the ocean shoreline one morning after a very high tide. As he walked along, he saw hundreds of starfish that had been washed ashore and realized that they would die if they were not returned to the sea. But there were so many, there was no way to save them.

Suddenly he saw an old man bending over, picking something up and throwing it into the water. He approached the old man and realized that the man was methodically bending down, picking up a starfish and throwing it into the ocean, and repeating this same process again and again. The young boy stopped the old man and asked him why he was bothering; what difference would it make?

The old man looked at the boy, bent down and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. As he did so, he said, "It makes a difference to that one."

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