Thursday, May 29, 2008

The kid and the starfish

Let me tell you a story....

As an old bloke walked the beach at dawn he noticed a kid ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the young guy, he asked him why he was doing it. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun.

"But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish," counted the old man. "How can your efforts make any difference?"

The kid looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to the safety of the waves. " It will make a difference to THIS ONE," he said.

In the pursuit of a far-fetched dream, we are sometimes discouraged by negative thoughts and hence, more often than not, give up before we even try to do anything. But we tend to overlook that every step we take brings us this much closer to realizing our aspirations. So no matter how daunting the task seems, we must FIGHT ON even when desirable results are not as apparent as they should be.

This goes out to those taking their exams. All the best guys and gals:)

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