The Giving Issue

Here’s a story:

A kid

is walking on a beach.
Hundreds of starfish
have washed up.

The kid

is throwing the starfish
back into the sea.

A man asks what he is doing.

The kid says

he’s throwing the starfish
back into the sea
so they won’t die.

The man says

you can’t possibly save all of them.

The kid

picks one up
and says
“Well, I saved that one.”

Think big,

but
it’s still …
just one person at a time.

This is an old story that asks the question: What can one person do?  The answer: Not much, but it is still something. 

 

© 2012 Catherine Giordano

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