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Kindness

An old man encounters a little girl on the beach who is throwing starfish back into the sea to save them from dying. Despite the vast number of starfish, the girl believes her actions make a difference, as she tells the man, 'I made a difference to that one!' The story emphasizes that even small acts of kindness can significantly impact others' lives.

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Kindness

An old man encounters a little girl on the beach who is throwing starfish back into the sea to save them from dying. Despite the vast number of starfish, the girl believes her actions make a difference, as she tells the man, 'I made a difference to that one!' The story emphasizes that even small acts of kindness can significantly impact others' lives.

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Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the

seaside every morning to do his writing. He had a habit of walking


along the beautiful beach before starting his work. One beautiful
Sunday as per his morning ritual, he went to sea shore and started
walking along the shore. As he moved ahead, he came along a
stretch on which thousands of starfish had washed up. He found
beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in
both directions.
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a little girl approaching. As
the girl walked, she paused every so often. When she came closer,
the old man could see that she was occasionally bending down to
pick up an object and throw it into the sea.

The little girl came a bit closer and the old man called out, “Good
morning little princess!!! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The pretty little girl paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing
starfish into the sea.” The little girl continued her job of picking and
throwing back the starfishes in to the sea.

“I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the sea?”,
asked the old man.

To this, the little girl replied, “The tide has washed them up onto the
beach and they can’t return back to the sea by themselves. When
the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the
water.”

Upon hearing this, the old man commented, ‘But, little girl, do you
not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are
starfish all along every mile? There must be tens of thousands of
starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make
much of a difference!”

The girl bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far
as she could into the ocean. Then she turned towards old man, gave
a sweet smile and said, “I made a difference to that one!”

Even a small act of kindness can make a difference in someone’s world. Be it our friends, family, our
helpers, teachers. Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no
matter what you look like. As Just one act of our kindness can change a person’s life.
Wherever there is life there is an opportunity to be kind.

“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to


change a person’s life.” —Jackie Chan
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the
roots spring up and make new trees.

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