Titan: I just attended the Community Service Workshop held by PAYM today. The Workshop basically covers what YEC could do to reach out to the less fortunate around us.
What really caught my attention was a story presented by one of the YEC during their presentation on their community project.
I have this impending urge to put this up to share it with everyone so that each of us can stop what we are doing for a second to think about what the less fortunate people are doing right now....
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One day an old man was walking along the beach. It was low tide, and the sand was littered with thousands of stranded starfish that the water had carried in and then left behind. The man began walking very carefully so as not to step on any of the beautiful creatures. Since the animals still seemed to be alive, he considered picking some of them up and putting them back in the water where they could resume their lives.
The man knew the starfish would die if left on the beach's dry sand but he reasoned that he could not possibly help them all, so he choose to do nothing and continued walking.
Soon afterwards, the man came upon a small child on the beach who was frantically throwing one starfish afer another back into the sea. The old manstopped and asked the child, "What are you doing?"
"I'm saving the starfish,"the child replied.
"Why waste your time?...there are so many, you can't save them all, so what does it matter?" argued the man.
Without hesitation, the child picked up another starfish and tossed the starfish back into the water..."It matters to this one," the child explained.
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