Hello reader,
Tonight, a text, a story. It is not mine but I got permission to copy and paste.
As the old man was walking along the beach at dawn, I noticed that he stooped from time to time to collect many starfish that had been laid on the beach last night.
He took each one carefully and relaunched gently in the waves.
I followed a few steps behind, walking slowly, without being seen. He continued to work patiently, without seeming daunted by the length of the beach. The sun had just broken the horizon. I approached the elderly man, as he bent to pick up yet another starfish, among all those scattered on the sand.
- Excuse me, sir, "I said
The man got up and turned slowly, holding the star tenderly in his hands.
- What's wrong? he asked
- I could not help but notice what you are doing here this morning. I look at you in a while. I think what you are doing is useless. This is silly: the beach stretches for miles and there are thousands of starfish How, what you do, could change something?
The old man looked at the star in her hands, then smiled gently, and He handed it to me.
- It changes something for this, is not it? he says, it changes something for that one there!
I took a star in her outstretched hand and threw it in the safety of the sea and we continued together. The sun was shining more and more as we walked along the beach ...
Since then, I banished from my vocabulary the words "it is useless" and "this is just a drop in the bucket." Whenever I have the opportunity to act, albeit ridiculous, even if so small that much to look at me with a sneer, whether just one smile at a funeral or a status shared on facebook, I do ... Obviously, my movement will not change the face of the world, but if only one person, this gesture may feel a bit more understood, accepted, surrounded, if one person is smiling again even for a moment ... then for that one, it will change something and my action will not be useless. And even though this is not the case, do not worry: at least I tried ... --- END ---
morality that I see is that every act, even ridiculously insignificant to some, have a scope, effect and consequence. Both the good and the bad.
0 comments:
Post a Comment