10-15-2003, 11:51 PM
There once was a young man that walked along a beach at low tide. Every time he walked he saw hundreds of star fish stranded on the sand. He would always see an old man walking along the beach tossing star fish back into the sea. He could only save a few of the animals though because there were so many of them on the beach. One day the two men crossed paths.
"Old man," the younger said, "Why do you bother to toss star fish back into the sea? There are so many out here that what you are doing doesn't even matter!"
The old man tossed a star fish into the water and quietly said, "It mattered to that one."