The Starfish Thrower

What do you know about donating a kidney?

Did you know that the most common blood type on earth is O+?

Did you know that donating a kidney does not shorten your life if you simply take care of yourself?

Did you know that the waiting list for the most common blood type on earth, is also the longest?

Did you know that the remaining kidney will increase functioning capacity by as much as 35%?

They will tell you that there is no gain whatsoever to the donor.

This is not actually true. You gain the knowledge that you reached out to a fellow human being, and gave them a chance at a life. To have children. To marry. To love. To grow old.

There is an old story of a man walking down a beach covered in starfish. Literally millions upon millions of starfish are dying in the heat of the sun, as the tide retreats beneath them. 

Way off down the beach, he can see another man running up and down the beach, each time to the water, and then back. 


As he draws closer, he sees that the man is picking up every starfish he sees, and flinging it back into the ocean. Again and again he scoops up starfish, flinging them back into the sea. 

Finally abreast the man, he asks "What are you doing? You can't possibly save even the slightest fraction of all the starfish on the beach. Nothing you are doing means anything." 

The man stops for a moment, and looks down at the starfish in his hand. "It means something to this one."

Now here is what I want you to do. It is simple, and easy. 

BE THE MAN SAVING THE STARFISH.