When helplessness becomes the loudest voice in your head.
A woman took an early walk on the beach, and saw that the storm the evening before had washed hundreds of starfish up onto the shore, where the receding tide was leaving them stranded.
She began picking them up and throwing them back into the surf. Another early riser commented, "Why even try? You can't save them all. What your doing doesn't really matter." The woman looked at the starfish in her hand and said, "It matters to this one."