Make a Difference

When we say something cannot be fixed, it will remains as it is forever, until one day someone comes and says I will make a difference. It was a story I once read. It’s about a boy who saw an elderly man by the beach throwing a few stranded star fishes back to the ocean. As the old man was picking up the star fishes from the beach, the boy approached and asks what he was doing. The old man explained saying that if he didn’t do what he is doing; the fishes would die on the beach. Then the boy questioned that there a millions of stranded starfishes on the beaches, what difference would he make? The old man pick up the last starfish and said, ‘It would make a difference to this one.” I really think that this was a good parable to show how much it would make a difference about a silly matter, but we always took accounts on our behalf, if we looked from the eyes of others, we would see that it will mean the world to them.

There are also a few pictures that I once saw, made into posters and bookmarks about making a difference in a world where some people had long ago prohibited a change. It was a picture of a baby running out of a hatched egg. I know that sounds extremely outrageous and also, the expression-‘only God can make that difference’ on certain faces, but applying it to life situation is obviously a great challenge. What may seem to be a great ‘science-fiction’ breakthrough may be possible in the near future-I don’t know, but what miracles can human perform?

Ms Erin wanted to make a difference in the high school. The class which the other teachers abandoned was taken into consideration and great care by Ms Erin. Why she should do what the other teachers are doing? Abandon and ignore them just because the world did? She knew she could make them, not just making a difference in the school but also their lives. It was a great difference in the end; the students graduated and went to high school, because someone made a difference in their lives.