“It doesn’t matter,” an adult tells him. “You’ll never even make a dent in this.” “It matters to this starfish,” the boy says, as he rescues another one. To the person you’re saving, to the person whose burden you are lessening? There is nothing “small” about it. When the Talmud says that he who saves one person saves the world, maybe that’s partly what they meant—because you certainly save that person’s whole world.
