On our last day of Link training, my coach John gave us this starfish pin and told us the related story. John's a masterful storyteller, his message really touched me. It closely reflected how I often feel as a public school teacher...
At a beach, a young man is picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into the sea. An old man gazed in wonder as the young man again and again threw the small starfish from the sand to the water. He asked, "Young man, why do you spend so much energy doing what seems to be a waste of time. There're thousands, if not millions of dying starfish." The young man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun. "You can't save them all!" exclaimed the old man. The young man looked at the small starfish in his hand and threw it to the sea, and said, "Well, I saved that one!"
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