Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘I made a difference for the starfish’? Here is the story where this sentence is included:

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who went to his house by the ocean to write his articles. Every day, before starting his work, this wise man would take a walk by the ocean to gather energy. One of the days he was walking, he saw a human silhouette moving like a dancer on the beach. As he approached the silhouette, he realized it was a young boy. Also, the young boy didn’t seem to be dancing much. The wise man said to the young boy, who was picking things from the beach and throwing them into the sea:

“Good morning, may I ask what you are doing?”

The boy pauses for a moment and then replies,
“I’m throwing starfish into the ocean.”
The wise man asks, ‘Well, why are you throwing the starfish into the ocean?’ ‘The sun has already risen and the tide is receding; if I don’t throw them into the ocean, they will die,’ the young boy replies.
The wise man responds; “Don’t you see that the beach is very big and there are too many starfish; what you are doing won’t change anything.”
After listening to the wise man, the young boy bends down, picks up another starfish from the ground, throws it towards the ocean, and says, “Look, it made a difference for this one.” The wise man, unable to say anything in astonishment, walks towards his hut and tries to grasp the essence of the young man’s behavior all night. The next day, as soon as he wakes up, he runs to the young man and spends the whole day throwing starfish into the ocean….

The Starfish story is the story of us needing to be individuals who realize the difference in making a difference, who realize and implement things instead of watching and judging them. It is up to you to be a player in the universe and choose to make a difference, rather than being an observer in the universe and watching what happens…