Inspiration

Out of the two texts to choose from, I chose "The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World" by Gabriel Marquez. I've had a similar experience. Not in the way that I found a drowned man along a shore, but in the way that someone so spectacular changed my life. In my opinion, that was the moral of the story. Sometimes, a little inspiration can make a major difference.
The text mainly focused on the drowned man. He was everything no one else in the village was. He was tall, handsome, strong, and virile. The villagers couldn't help but be mesmerized by the alien. The villagers had cared so much for the stranger that even after his funeral they had changed their homes and lifestyles around his life. The women came to know that his gifts were also burdens, and they wanted their village to be a place where his burdens were no more. They changed the height of ceilings, made their doorways wider, and their floors sturdier so they never forgot the experience and memory of him.
There's multiple experiences that we face that change our whole outlook. Like this story, many are surprising while others are planned out through time. My personal opinion about this change is that it's effects are subsided and often fair. The man was going to be forever remembered in that village, and the surrounding ones. Everyone gathered to say goodbye to a man they didn't even know. They fought over who would hold him, and even cried when they dropped him from the cliff. That proves that a single person can changed someone else's life.
"The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World" was a different outlook on the impact someone else has. This stranger made the woman even second guess their husbands, and influenced the husbands to be more like him. Everyone has a similar experience to this one even if it isn't exactly the same. A washed up dead man can change someone's life before they realize it.