It Makes A Difference

In a world that seems to be increasingly filled with trouble, crime, pain and war, how can one Leader make any difference?

A young boy walking the beach one morning noticed an old man picking up starfish and tossing them back into the sea. He caught up to the man and asked him why he was doing this.

"Because the stranded starfish will die when the sun comes up. They dry out," the man explained.

"But the beach goes on and on, and there are millions of starfish," countered the boy. "How can what you do make any difference?"

The old man looked at the starfish in his hand. "It makes a difference to this one," he said, and tossed it to safety in the waves.

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