every little action is important
Yeah, this is glurge, barely removed from some email from your great aunt Edna’s aol account with a subject line beginning with “>>>>>>>FW:FW:FW:FW”, but there’s some wisdom to it.
And yes, you’re supposed to read this in a political context; your vote and your participation does matter. I think you all know who I’d prefer you cast your various votes for, but the principle applies whether you fall to the left or the right.
A man was walking a beach one morning and he encountered thousands of starfish that had washed upon the shore. As the sun grew higher in the sky, surely these thousands of beautiful starfish would shrivel and die in the hot sun.
The man glumly kept up his walk until he came across a boy, throwing starfish back into the ocean.
The man, seeing that the boy had no chance to make a dent in the miles of starfish, he said,
“Hey, what are you doing? You know you have no chance to make a difference? ”
The boy looked up, took another starfish and flung it out to sea and said,
“It matters to this one!”
So yeah, you…go fling some radially-symmetrical aquatic life into the sea. If nothing else, those particular echinoderms appreciate it.
