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Fire Pit Stories · Story & video
An old story. A powerful lesson. Inside each of us live two wolves — one representing the things that can pull us away from kindness, and another representing the qualities that help us become better human beings. Which one wins? The answer depends on which one we feed.
Fire Pit Stories
On the first evening, he thought she’d dropped something. On the second, he realised she was doing it on purpose. Every few steps, the woman bent down, picked something up and tossed it into the sea. From where he stood, he could hear the splash. He couldn’t see what was in her hand. On the third evening, he got there before she did. When he saw what the tide had left behind, he finally understood what she was doing. What he couldn’t understand was why she kept coming back. He waited until she was close enough to hear him, then asked her a question he thought had an obvious answer. She answered with the tiny starfish in her hand.
