To save a life - StarFish

There is a story of the boy who is walkingalong the sea shore throwing starfish, who washed up onto the sand, backintothe sea. A man approaches him and says "what are you doing? There arethousands of washed up starfish, you can only throw in a handful, whatdifference will throwing a few of them back into the sea make?"The boy picks up a starfish and tosses it back into the sea and responds"to that starfish it made a difference."May daughter said to the reporter "My father may have only saved one life,but to that man, to his family and to his children, it made a hugedifference.