So. How Do We Make The World Smile?
That’s an interesting question. To answer it I’m going to tell you a little story I read in Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansens’ classic book “Chicken Soup for the Soul”.
A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.
As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time,he was throwing them back into the water.
Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, “Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing.”
“I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it’s low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll die up here from lack of oxygen.”
“I understand,” my friend replied, “but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can’t possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don’t you realise this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can’t you see that you can’t possibly make a difference?”
The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, “Made a difference to that one!”
Jack Canfield and Mark V Hansen
I’ve always loved this story and going over it again, while I’m sitting here typing it out on my computer, just reminds me that we are all important to someone or to something.
It reminds me that we all have the ability to make a difference – if we choose to do so. So the answer to the question is simple. We make the world smile one face at a time.
Now I have to admit. If it’s left to me on my own, then it’s never going to happen – but I can still make someone smile every day by doing just 1 Good Dee a Day. I can still make a difference! But when this idea came to me, I felt inspired by it. If you, and other people that read this, feel inspired as well, and join me in my quest, then we get a step closer and we make more of a difference.
If all of us, then, continue to let other people in our life know what we’re doing, some of them will also become inspired to do 1 Good Deed a Day. And as more and more of us continue to do our 1 Good Deed a Day – and share what we’re doing with others, we’ll gradually get to make the world smile.
Simple really!
So don’t hesitate. In the words of Nike, “Just Do It!”. Do it every day – and let everyone you know, know what you’re doing. Share it on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter or whatever socal media you choose to use.
Who knows what might happen.
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