A small boy was walking along a beach at low tide, where countless thousands of small sea creatures, having been washed up, were stranded and doomed to perish.
A man watched as the boy picked up individual creatures and took them back into the water.
"I can see you're being very kind," said the watching man, "But there must be a million of them; it can't possibly make any difference."
Returning from the water's edge, the boy said, "It will for that one"
Most of us are like the watching man. We tend to look at the macro picture and hesitate to take any action on small things for fear of not being able to make a major impact. We forget that even a small gesture can make a lot of difference for an individual or creature.
Go ahead and make a small difference in someones life. It will mean a lot to him.
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