13/11/2025
Ever feel like your effort doesn’t matter anymore?
Like no matter what you do, the world’s still too broken, too loud, too much?
After a huge storm, thousands of starfish were stranded along a long stretch of beach.
They lay there helpless under the hot sun, flopping and drying out, one after another.
A young boy kept bending down, picking them up, and throwing them back into the water. One by one. Over and over.
It was obvious — looking at the endless line of starfish — that what he was doing was almost impossible. Miserable, even.
A man walking by stopped and watched, shaking his head. He wondered aloud, “Why are you doing this? There are thousands of them. You can’t possibly save them all. What difference will it make?”
The boy picked up another starfish, tossed it into the waves, and said simply,
“It made a difference for that one.”
Sometimes, the world feels too big, too broken, too much to fix.
But helping even one person — one heart, one life — can make all the difference.
