Power of One?

Both HD and TM are sitting at scenes in which the heroines are struggling with the idea that they can do anything to stop big, bad things from happening. I've been empathizing with them far too much. Can one person really do anything? The best one can do is try and see what happens, I guess. But it's a very disheartening realization that you're pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. Staying there too long leads to depression. On the other hand, believing for too long that you can and will change the world leads to arrogance, or at the least a blind spot to life's harsher realities. So the middle ground of "live your life, do what you can, keep moving forward" seems the best idea. Sometimes it's very hard to stay there, though, when you see so much crap happening that you want to fix or that you know you can't fix.

So this is nothing new, but I needed to put it here as a reminder to me all the same.