| As a young guy walked along the beach he saw an elderly man bending over and standing up again, the elderly man continued in doing so. The young guy wondered in confusment what the elderly man was doing, so he walked over onto the sand and headed toward the elderly man who still continued to bend over and stand up. As he looked toward the water there were thousands of washed-up star fish laying all along the beach. He continued to head toward the elderly man to ask what he was doing. Then it hit the young guy suddenly that the elderly man was picking up one star fish at a time and setting them free by throwing it back into the ocean. But the young guy was still confused. What use is the elderly man doing this? There were thousands of washed-up star fish, surely he's not capable ofsetting them all free. So once again he headed closer to the elderly man to ask him what use was he doing. The elderly man replied and said that although there were thousands of star fish at lest one of them had a chance of being set free back into the ocean then being stranded there on the shore. The young guy just stood there and thought about it, while he watched the elderly man continue to set the stranded star fish free back into the ocean. |
