Starfishes and Life Lessons

Today Treacle asked me if it might be alright if she became a starfish.

"Starfishes have at least five points," I remarked. "You only have two."

She paused for a moment, before deciding that she could perhaps become half a starfish.

I smiled and told her something that I want her never to forget:

"You can become whatever you want to," I said, "But you might drown."